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CVE-2023-22417

Junos OS: SRX Series: A memory leak might be observed in IPsec VPN scenario leading to an FPC crash

Published
Last modified
published
Not listed in CISA KEV
Fix
Fixed in 19.3R3-S7, 20.2R3-S6, 20.3R3-S5, 20.4R3-S5, 21.1R3-S4, and 3 more
None on Exploit-DB, Metasploit or GitHub
  • Exploitation: none
  • Automatable: yes
  • Technical impact: partial

Summary

A Missing Release of Memory after Effective Lifetime vulnerability in the Flow Processing Daemon (flowd) of Juniper Networks Junos OS allows a network-based, unauthenticated attacker to cause a Denial of Service (DoS). In an IPsec VPN environment, a memory leak will be seen if a DH or ECDH group is configured. Eventually the flowd process will crash and restart. This issue affects Juniper Networks Junos OS on SRX Series: All versions prior to 19.3R3-S7; 19.4 versions prior to 19.4R2-S8, 19.4R3-S10; 20.2 versions prior to 20.2R3-S6; 20.3 versions prior to 20.3R3-S5; 20.4 versions prior to 20.4R3-S5; 21.1 versions prior to 21.1R3-S4; 21.2 versions prior to 21.2R3; 21.3 versions prior to 21.3R3; 21.4 versions prior to 21.4R2.

Timeline

  1. CVE published
  2. CISA SSVC assessment

    Exploitation: none · Automatable: yes · Technical impact: partial

  3. Record last updated

Affected versions

  • Juniper Networks Junos OS

    fixed in 19.3R3-S7; From 20.2 · fixed in 20.2R3-S6; From 20.3 · fixed in 20.3R3-S5; From 20.4 · fixed in 20.4R3-S5; From 21.1 · fixed in 21.1R3-S4; From 21.2 · fixed in 21.2R3; From 21.3 · fixed in 21.3R3; From 21.4 · fixed in 21.4R2

References 1

kb.juniper.net