Improper handling of exceptional conditions in Juniper Junos OS - CVE-2023-22391

 

Improper handling of exceptional conditions in Juniper Junos OS - CVE-2023-22391

Published: January 11, 2023


Vulnerability identifier: #VU82482
CSH Severity: Medium
CVSSv4.0: 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/E:U/U:Green
CVE-ID: CVE-2023-22391
CWE-ID: CWE-755
Exploitation vector: Remote access
Exploit availability: No public exploit available
Vulnerable software:
Juniper Junos OS
Software vendor:
Juniper Networks, Inc.

Description

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

A vulnerability in class-of-service (CoS) queue management in Juniper Networks Junos OS on the ACX2K Series devices allows an unauthenticated network-based attacker to cause a Denial of Service (DoS).  Specific packets are being incorrectly routed to a queue used for other high-priority traffic such as BGP, PIM, ICMP, ICMPV6 ND and ISAKMP.


Remediation

Install updates from vendor's website.

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