CVE-2023-36843

published 2023-10-12

CVE-2023-36843: An Improper Handling of Inconsistent Special Elements vulnerability in the Junos Services Framework (jsf) module of Juniper Networks Junos OS allows an…

Priority P3 44 high 7.5 CVSS 3.1

AV N AC L PR N UI N S U C N I N A H

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

20 ranges

Vendor	Product	Version range	Fixed in
juniper	junos	< 20.4	20.4
juniper	junos	—	—
juniper	junos	—	—
juniper	junos	—	—
juniper	junos	—	—
juniper	junos	—	—
juniper	junos	—	—
juniper	junos	—	—
juniper	junos	—	—
juniper	junos	—	—
juniper	junos_os	—	—
juniper_networks	junos_os	< 20.4R3-S8	20.4R3-S8
juniper_networks	junos_os	>= 21.1R1 < 21.1*	21.1*
juniper_networks	junos_os	>= 21.2 < 21.2R3-S6	21.2R3-S6
juniper_networks	junos_os	>= 21.3 < 21.3R3-S5	21.3R3-S5
juniper_networks	junos_os	>= 21.4 < 21.4R3-S5	21.4R3-S5
juniper_networks	junos_os	>= 22.1 < 22.1R3-S4	22.1R3-S4
juniper_networks	junos_os	>= 22.2 < 22.2R3-S2	22.2R3-S2
juniper_networks	junos_os	>= 22.3 < 22.3R2-S2, 22.3R3	22.3R2-S2, 22.3R3
juniper_networks	junos_os	>= 22.4 < 22.4R2-S1, 22.4R3	22.4R2-S1, 22.4R3

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