SB2023011165 - Denial of service in Juniper Junos OS Evolved



SB2023011165 - Denial of service in Juniper Junos OS Evolved

Published: January 11, 2023 Updated: October 4, 2023

Security Bulletin ID SB2023011165
Severity
Medium
Patch available
YES
Number of vulnerabilities 1
Exploitation vector Remote access
Highest impact Denial of service

Breakdown by Severity

Medium 100%
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Description

This security bulletin contains information about 1 security vulnerability.


1) Resource exhaustion (CVE-ID: CVE-2023-22400)

The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.

The vulnerability exists due to improperly controlled consumption of internal resources in the PFE management daemon (evo-pfemand) when a specific SNMP GET operation or a specific CLI command is executed. A remote attacker can trigger resource exhaustion and perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.


Remediation

Install update from vendor's website.