CVEvulnerability

CVE-2023-28979

4.7 MEDIUM Published 2023-04-17 Modified 2026-06-17 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2023-04-17
Last modified
2026-06-17
Assigner
[email protected]
CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
4.7 MEDIUM — CVSS:3.1/AV:A/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:N/I:L/A:N
CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
4.7 MEDIUM — CVSS:3.1/AV:A/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:N/I:L/A:N
Weaknesses
CWE-754

Description

An Improper Check for Unusual or Exceptional Conditions vulnerability in the kernel of Juniper Networks Junos OS allows an adjacent unauthenticated attacker to bypass an integrity check. In a 6PE scenario and if an additional integrity check is configured, it will fail to drop specific malformed IPv6 packets, and then these packets will be forwarded to other connected networks. This issue affects Juniper Networks Junos OS: All versions prior to 19.3R3-S7; 19.4 versions prior to 19.4R3-S9; 20.2 versions prior to 20.2R3-S7; 20.3 versions prior to 20.3R3-S5; 20.4 versions prior to 20.4R3-S4; 21.1 versions prior to 21.1R3-S3; 21.2 versions prior to 21.2R3-S2; 21.3 versions prior to 21.3R3-S1; 21.4 versions prior to 21.4R2-S1, 21.4R3; 22.1 versions prior to 22.1R2; 22.2 versions prior to 22.2R2.

Affected configurations

• juniper junos (< 19.3) • juniper junos 19.3 • juniper junos 19.4 • juniper junos 20.2 • juniper junos 20.3 • juniper junos 20.4 • juniper junos 21.1 • juniper junos 21.2 • juniper junos 21.3 • juniper junos 21.4 • juniper junos 22.1 • juniper junos 22.2

Related

Weakness · CWE (1)

  • CWE-754 Improper Check for Unusual or Exceptional Conditions weakness

References