Riskcovery

CVE-2023-22417

Junos OS: SRX Series: A memory leak might be observed in IPsec VPN scenario leading to an FPC crash

State
Published
Severity
7.5 High
Published
Jan 12, 2023
Updated
Apr 8, 2025
Reserved
Dec 27, 2022

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Description

A Missing Release of Memory after Effective Lifetime vulnerability in the Flow Processing Daemon (flowd) of Juniper Networks Junos OS allows a network-based, unauthenticated attacker to cause a Denial of Service (DoS). In an IPsec VPN environment, a memory leak will be seen if a DH or ECDH group is configured. Eventually the flowd process will crash and restart. This issue affects Juniper Networks Junos OS on SRX Series: All versions prior to 19.3R3-S7; 19.4 versions prior to 19.4R2-S8, 19.4R3-S10; 20.2 versions prior to 20.2R3-S6; 20.3 versions prior to 20.3R3-S5; 20.4 versions prior to 20.4R3-S5; 21.1 versions prior to 21.1R3-S4; 21.2 versions prior to 21.2R3; 21.3 versions prior to 21.3R3; 21.4 versions prior to 21.4R2.

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-401 Missing Release of Memory after Effective Lifetime

Affected Products

ProductVersions
Junos OSJuniper Networks
  • before 19.3R3-S7Affected
  • 19.4 to before 19.4R2-S8, 19.4R3-S10Affected
  • 20.2 to before 20.2R3-S6Affected
  • 20.3 to before 20.3R3-S5Affected
  • 20.4 to before 20.4R3-S5Affected
  • 21.1 to before 21.1R3-S4Affected
  • 21.2 to before 21.2R3Affected
  • 21.3 to before 21.3R3Affected
  • 21.4 to before 21.4R2Affected

References

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