CVE-2023-36835 — Improper Check for Unusual or Exceptional Conditions in Networks Junos OS
Severity
7.5HIGHNVD
EPSS
0.2%
top 53.76%
CISA KEV
Not in KEV
Exploit
No known exploits
Affected products
Timeline
PublishedJul 14
Description
An Improper Check for Unusual or Exceptional Conditions vulnerability in the Packet Forwarding Engine (PFE) of Juniper Networks Junos OS on QFX10000 Series allows a network based attacker to cause a Denial of Service (DoS).
If a specific valid IP packet is received and that packet needs to be routed over a VXLAN tunnel, this will result in a PFE wedge condition due to which traffic gets impacted. As this is not a crash and restart scenario, this condition will persist until the system is reboot…
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:HExploitability: 3.9 | Impact: 3.6
Affected Packages2 packages
🔴Vulnerability Details
2CVEList▶
Junos OS: QFX10000 Series: All traffic will be dropped after a specific valid IP packet has been received which needs to be routed over a VXLAN tunnel↗2023-07-14
GHSA▶
GHSA-3xwf-x58p-42cm: An Improper Check for Unusual or Exceptional Conditions vulnerability in the Packet Forwarding Engine (PFE) of Juniper Networks Junos OS on QFX10000 S↗2023-07-14
📋Vendor Advisories
1Juniper▶
CVE-2023-36835: An Improper Check for Unusual or Exceptional Conditions vulnerability in the Packet Forwarding Engine (PFE) of Juniper Networks Junos OS on QFX10000 S↗2023-07-14