CVEvulnerability
CVE-2023-36843
7.5 HIGH
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2023-10-12
- Last modified
- 2026-06-17
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
- 7.5 HIGH — CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
- CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
- 7.5 HIGH — CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
- Weaknesses
- CWE-168
Description
An Improper Handling of Inconsistent Special Elements vulnerability in the Junos Services Framework (jsf) module of Juniper Networks Junos OS allows an unauthenticated network based attacker to cause a crash in the Packet Forwarding Engine (pfe) and thereby resulting in a Denial of Service (DoS).
Upon receiving malformed SSL traffic, the PFE crashes. A manual restart will be needed to recover the device.
This issue only affects devices with Juniper Networks Advanced Threat Prevention (ATP) Cloud enabled with Encrypted Traffic Insights (configured via ‘security-metadata-streaming policy’).
This issue affects Juniper Networks Junos OS:
* All versions prior to 20.4R3-S8, 20.4R3-S9;
* 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-S5;
* 22.1 versions prior to 22.1R3-S4;
* 22.2 versions prior to 22.2R3-S2;
* 22.3 versions prior to 22.3R2-S2, 22.3R3;
* 22.4 versions prior to 22.4R2-S1, 22.4R3;
Affected configurations
• juniper junos (< 20.4)
• 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
• juniper junos 22.3
• juniper junos 22.4
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-168 Improper Handling of Inconsistent Special Elements weakness
References
- https://supportportal.juniper.net/JSA73174 Vendor Advisory
- https://supportportal.juniper.net/JSA73174 Vendor Advisory