Riskcovery

CVE-2023-36843

Junos OS: SRX Series: The PFE will crash on receiving malformed SSL traffic when Sky ATP is enabled

State
Published
Severity
7.5 High
Published
Oct 12, 2023
Updated
Sep 18, 2024
Reserved
Jun 27, 2023

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Description

An Improper Handling of Inconsistent Special Elements vulnerability in the Junos Services Framework (jsf) module of Juniper Networks Junos OS allows an unauthenticated network based attacker to cause a crash in the Packet Forwarding Engine (pfe) and thereby resulting in a Denial of Service (DoS).

Upon receiving malformed SSL traffic, the PFE crashes. A manual restart will be needed to recover the device.

This issue only affects devices with Juniper Networks Advanced Threat Prevention (ATP) Cloud enabled with Encrypted Traffic Insights (configured via ‘security-metadata-streaming policy’).

This issue affects Juniper Networks Junos OS:

* All versions prior to 20.4R3-S8, 20.4R3-S9; * 21.1 version 21.1R1 and later versions; * 21.2 versions prior to 21.2R3-S6; * 21.3 versions prior to 21.3R3-S5; * 21.4 versions prior to 21.4R3-S5; * 22.1 versions prior to 22.1R3-S4; * 22.2 versions prior to 22.2R3-S2; * 22.3 versions prior to 22.3R2-S2, 22.3R3; * 22.4 versions prior to 22.4R2-S1, 22.4R3;

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-168 Improper Handling of Inconsistent Special Elements

Affected Products

ProductVersions
Junos OSJuniper Networks
  • before 20.4R3-S8Affected
  • 21.1R1 to before 21.1*Affected
  • 21.2 to before 21.2R3-S6Affected
  • 21.3 to before 21.3R3-S5Affected
  • 21.4 to before 21.4R3-S5Affected
  • 22.1 to before 22.1R3-S4Affected
  • 22.2 to before 22.2R3-S2Affected
  • 22.3 to before 22.3R2-S2, 22.3R3Affected
  • 22.4 to before 22.4R2-S1, 22.4R3Affected

References

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