CVE-2023-22391

Junos OS: ACX2K Series: Receipt of a high rate of specific traffic will lead to a Denial of Service (DoS)

State
Published
Severity
7.5 High
Published
Jan 12, 2023
Updated
Apr 7, 2025
Reserved
Dec 27, 2022

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Description

A vulnerability in class-of-service (CoS) queue management in Juniper Networks Junos OS on the ACX2K Series devices allows an unauthenticated network-based attacker to cause a Denial of Service (DoS). Specific packets are being incorrectly routed to a queue used for other high-priority traffic such as BGP, PIM, ICMP, ICMPV6 ND and ISAKMP. Due to this misclassification of traffic, receipt of a high rate of these specific packets will cause delays in the processing of other traffic, leading to a Denial of Service (DoS). Continued receipt of this amount of traffic will create a sustained Denial of Service (DoS) condition. This issue affects Juniper Networks Junos OS on ACX2K Series: All versions prior to 19.4R3-S9; All 20.2 versions; 20.3 versions prior to 20.3R3-S6 on ACX2K Series; 20.4 versions prior to 20.4R3-S4 on ACX2K Series; All 21.1 versions; 21.2 versions prior to 21.2R3-S3 on ACX2K Series. Note: This issues affects legacy ACX2K Series PPC-based devices. This platform reached Last Supported Version (LSV) as of the Junos OS 21.2 Release.

Scores

CVSSScoreVectorSource
3.17.5 HighCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:Hjuniper

Weaknesses

  • CWE-755 Improper Handling of Exceptional Conditions

Affected Products

ProductVersions
Junos OSJuniper Networks
  • before 19.4R3-S9Affected
  • 20.2R1 to before 20.2*Affected
  • 20.3 to before 20.3R3-S6Affected
  • 20.4 to before 20.4R3-S4Affected
  • 21.1R1 to before 21.1*Affected
  • 21.2 to before 21.2R3-S3Affected

References

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