Junos OS and Junos OS Evolved: In a BGP rib sharding scenario when a route is frequently updated an rpd memory leak will occur (Juniper Networks Junos OS)

CVE-2023-28982
HIGH 7.5

At a glance

Source
NVD
EPSS
EPSS 0.65 % · percentile 51 ()
State
PUBLISHED
Published
Updated
Assigner
juniper
NVD status
Modified

Description

A Missing Release of Memory after Effective Lifetime vulnerability in the routing protocol daemon of Juniper Networks Junos OS and Junos OS Evolved allows an unauthenticated, network based attacker to cause a Denial of Service (DoS). In a BGP rib sharding scenario, when an attribute of an active BGP route is updated memory will leak. As rpd memory usage increases over time the rpd process will eventually run out of memory, crash, and restart. The memory utilization can be monitored with the following CLI commands: show task memory show system processes extensive | match rpd This issue affects: Juniper Networks Junos OS 20.3 versions prior to 20.3R3-S2; 20.4 versions prior to 20.4R3-S6; 21.1 versions prior to 21.1R3; 21.2 versions prior to 21.2R3; 21.3 versions prior to 21.3R2. Juniper Networks Junos OS Evolved 20.3-EVO version 20.3R1-EVO and later versions; 20.4-EVO versions prior to 20.4R3-S6-EVO; 21.2-EVO versions prior to 21.2R3-EVO; 21.3-EVO versions prior to 21.3R2-EVO.

Weaknesses (CWE)

  • CWE-401 — Missing Release of Memory after Effective Lifetime

References

Scores

VersionScoreVectorScored by
CVSS 3.1HIGH 7.5CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:Hjuniper
CVSS 3.1HIGH 7.5CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:HNVD · sirt@juniper.net (Secondary)

European references

CERT-FR advisories

Affected configurations (NVD CPE)

Affected products

ProductVersions
Juniper Networks · Junos OSaffected 20.3 < 20.3R3-S2 ; affected 20.4 < 20.4R3-S6 ; affected 21.1 < 21.1R3 ; affected 21.2 < 21.2R3 ; affected 21.3 < 21.3R2
Juniper Networks · Junos OS Evolvedaffected 20.3R1-EVO < 20.3-EVO* ; affected 20.4-EVO < 20.4R3-S6-EVO ; affected 21.2-EVO < 21.2R3-EVO ; affected 21.3-EVO < 21.3R2-EVO

Sources

SourceLicence
CVE List (CVEProject cvelistV5)CVE Program Terms of Use
EPSS (FIRST.org)FIRST — attribution requested
ENISA EUVDENISA — reproduction authorised, source acknowledged
CERT-FR (ANSSI)Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0
NVD (NIST) via fkie-cad/nvd-json-data-feedsPublic domain — this product uses data from the NVD API but is not endorsed or certified by the NVD