CVEvulnerability
CVE-2023-28980
5.5 MEDIUM
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2023-04-17
- Last modified
- 2026-06-17
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
- 5.5 MEDIUM — CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
- Weaknesses
- CWE-416
Description
A Use After Free vulnerability in the routing protocol daemon of Juniper Networks Junos OS and Junos OS Evolved allows a locally authenticated attacker with low privileges to cause Denial of Service (DoS). In a rib sharding scenario the rpd process will crash shortly after specific CLI command is issued. This issue is more likely to occur in a scenario with high route scale (>1M routes).
This issue affects:
Juniper Networks Junos OS
* 20.2 version 20.2R3-S5 and later versions prior to 20.2R3-S6;
* 20.3 version 20.3R3-S2 and later versions prior to 20.3R3-S5;
* 20.4 version 20.4R3-S1 and later versions prior to 20.4R3-S4
* 21.1 version 21.1R3 and later versions prior to 21.1R3-S3;
* 21.2 version 21.2R1-S2, 21.2R2-S1 and later versions prior to 21.2R3-S2;
* 21.3 version 21.3R2 and later versions prior to 21.3R3;
* 21.4 versions prior to 21.4R2-S1, 21.4R3;
* 22.1 versions prior to 22.1R2.
Juniper Networks Junos OS Evolved
* 20.4-EVO version 20.4R3-S1-EVO and later versions prior to 20.4R3-S6-EVO;
* 21.2-EVO version 21.2R1-S2-EVO and later versions prior to 21.2R3-S4-EVO;
* 21.3-EVO version 21.3R2-EVO and later versions prior to 21.3R3-S1-EVO;
* 21.4-EVO versions prior to 21.4R2-S1-EVO, 21.4R3-EVO;
* 22.1-EVO versions prior to 22.1R2-EVO.
Affected configurations
• 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 os evolved 20.4
• juniper junos os evolved 21.2
• juniper junos os evolved 21.3
• juniper junos os evolved 21.4
• juniper junos os evolved 22.1
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-416 Use After Free weakness
References
- https://supportportal.juniper.net/JSA70606 Vendor Advisory
- https://supportportal.juniper.net/JSA70606 Vendor Advisory