CVEvulnerability

CVE-2020-1689

6.5 MEDIUM Published 2020-10-16 Modified 2026-06-17 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2020-10-16
Last modified
2026-06-17
Assigner
[email protected]
CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
6.5 MEDIUM — CVSS:3.1/AV:A/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
3.3 LOW — AV:A/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
Weaknesses
CWE-400

Description

On Juniper Networks EX4300-MP Series, EX4600 Series and QFX5K Series deployed in a Virtual Chassis configuration, receipt of a stream of specific layer 2 frames can cause high CPU load, which could lead to traffic interruption. This issue does not occur when the device is deployed in Stand Alone configuration. The offending layer 2 frame packets can originate only from within the broadcast domain where the device is connected. This issue affects Juniper Networks Junos OS on EX4300-MP Series, EX4600 Series and QFX5K Series: 17.3 versions prior to 17.3R3-S9; 17.4 versions prior to 17.4R2-S11, 17.4R3-S2, 17.4R3-S3; 18.1 versions prior to 18.1R3-S11; 18.2 versions prior to 18.2R3-S5; 18.3 versions prior to 18.3R2-S4, 18.3R3-S3; 18.4 versions prior to 18.4R2-S5, 18.4R3-S4; 19.1 versions prior to 19.1R3-S2; 19.2 versions prior to 19.2R1-S5, 19.2R3; 19.3 versions prior to 19.3R2-S4, 19.3R3; 19.4 versions prior to 19.4R1-S3, 19.4R2-S1, 19.4R3; 20.1 versions prior to 20.1R1-S3, 20.1R2.

Affected configurations

• juniper junos 17.3 • juniper junos 17.4 • juniper junos 18.1 • juniper junos 18.2 • juniper junos 18.3 • juniper junos 18.4 • juniper junos 19.1 • juniper junos 19.2 • juniper junos 19.3 • juniper junos 19.4 • juniper junos 20.1

Related

Weakness · CWE (1)

  • CWE-400 Uncontrolled Resource Consumption weakness

References