Uncaught Exception in Junos OS Evolved - CVE-2021-0286
Published: July 19, 2021
Vulnerability identifier: #VU54989
CSH Severity: Medium
CVSS v4: 8.7 [CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N]
CVE-ID: CVE-2021-0286
CWE-ID: CWE-248
Exploitation vector: Remote access
Exploit availability:
No public exploit available
Vulnerability details
The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.
The vulnerability exists due to improper handling of exceptional conditions when processing packets in Advanced Forwarding Toolkit manager (evo-aftmand-bt or evo-aftmand-zx). A remote attacker can send specially crafted packets to the affected device and perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.
Affected software
Junos OS Evolved
How to mitigate CVE-2021-0286
Install update from vendor's website.
Junos OS Evolved - addressed in versions 20.4R2-EVO, 21.1R2-EVO, 21.2R1-EVO