CVE-2023-36841

Summary

An Improper Check for Unusual or Exceptional Conditions vulnerability in the Packet Forwarding Engine (pfe) of Juniper Networks Junos OS on MX Series allows a unauthenticated network-based attacker to cause an infinite loop, resulting in a Denial of Service (DoS).

An attacker who sends malformed TCP traffic via an interface configured with PPPoE, causes an infinite loop on the respective PFE. This results in consuming all resources and a manual restart is needed to recover.

This issue affects interfaces with PPPoE configured and tcp-mss enabled.

This issue affects Juniper Networks Junos OS

  • All versions prior to 20.4R3-S7;
  • 21.1 version 21.1R1 and later versions;
  • 21.2 versions prior to 21.2R3-S6;
  • 21.3 versions prior to 21.3R3-S5;
  • 21.4 versions prior to 21.4R3-S3;
  • 22.1 versions prior to 22.1R3-S4;
  • 22.2 versions prior to 22.2R3;
  • 22.3 versions prior to 22.3R2-S2;
  • 22.4 versions prior to 22.4R2;

Affected Software

VendorProductVersion RangeStatus
Juniper NetworksJunos OS0 < 20.4R3-S7affected
Juniper NetworksJunos OS21.1R1 < 21.1*affected
Juniper NetworksJunos OS21.2 < 21.2R3-S6affected
Juniper NetworksJunos OS21.3 < 21.3R3-S5affected
Juniper NetworksJunos OS21.4 < 21.4R3-S3affected
Juniper NetworksJunos OS22.1 < 22.1R3-S4affected
Juniper NetworksJunos OS22.2 < 22.2R3affected
Juniper NetworksJunos OS22.3 < 22.3R2-S2, 22.3R3affected
Juniper NetworksJunos OS22.4 < 22.4R2affected

Weaknesses

  • CWE-400: CWE-400: Uncontrolled Resource Consumption

Workarounds

There are no known workarounds for this issue.

ADP Enrichment

CVE Program Container

Additional References

CISA ADP Vulnrichment

  • SSVC:
  • Exploitation: none
    • Automatable: yes
    • Technical Impact: partial

References