SB2019122037 - Denial of service in Junos OS SNMP processing
Published: December 20, 2019 Updated: October 27, 2023
Security Bulletin ID
SB2019122037
Severity
Medium
Patch available
YES
Number of vulnerabilities
1
Exploitation vector
Remote access
Highest impact
Denial of service
Breakdown by Severity
- Low
- Medium
- High
- Critical
Description
This security bulletin contains information about 1 security vulnerability.
1) Loop with unreachable exit condition ('infinite loop') (CVE-ID: CVE-2020-1600)
The vulnerability allows a remote authenticated user to perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.
In a Point-to-Multipoint (P2MP) Label Switched Path (LSP) scenario, an uncontrolled resource consumption vulnerability in the Routing Protocol Daemon (RPD) in Juniper Networks Junos OS allows a specific SNMP request to trigger an infinite loop causing a high CPU usage Denial of Service (DoS) condition. This issue affects both SNMP over IPv4 and IPv6.
Remediation
Install update from vendor's website.