CVE detail

CVE-2023-4481 — CVE-2023-4481

Published 2023-09-01 · Modified 2026-06-17 · Vendor juniper · Product junos · Source nvd
HIGH
severity
CVSS-derived band
7.5
CVSS v3
0–10 scale
0.1514
EPSS probability
exploitation probability, 30d
96.0%
EPSS percentile
percentile vs all CVEs
NOT LISTED
CISA KEV
known exploited catalog

Description

An Improper Input Validation vulnerability in the Routing Protocol Daemon (rpd) of Juniper Networks Junos OS and Junos OS Evolved allows an unauthenticated, network-based attacker to cause a Denial of Service (DoS). When certain specific crafted BGP UPDATE messages are received over an established BGP session, one BGP session may be torn down with an UPDATE message error, or the issue may propagate beyond the local system which will remain non-impacted, but may affect one or more remote systems. This issue is exploitable remotely as the crafted UPDATE message can propagate through unaffected systems and intermediate BGP speakers. Continuous receipt of the crafted BGP UPDATE messages will create a sustained Denial of Service (DoS) condition for impacted devices. This issue affects eBGP an

Remediation

vendor remediation guidance

The following software releases have been updated to resolve this specific issue: Junos OS: 20.4R3-S10, 21.2R3-S7, 21.3R3-S5, 21.4R3-S5 or 21.4R3-S7, 22.1R3-S4, 22.2R3-S3, 22.3R3-S1, 22.4R3, 23.2R2, 23.3R2, 23.4R1, and all subsequent releases Note: except for Junos OS 21.4R3-S6 which is affected and unfixed. Junos OS Evolved: 20.4R3-S10-EVO, 21.2R3-S7-EVO, 21.3R3-S5-EVO, 21.4R3-S5-EVO, 22.1R3-S4-EVO, 22.2R3-S3-EVO, 22.3R3-S1-EVO, 22.4R3-EVO, 23.2R2-EVO, 23.4R1-EVO, and all subsequent releases. It is important that customers implement the workaround in addition to taking any updated software as these crafted UPDATE messages may be propagated to other devices even if non-impacted locally, thereby protecting the network by stopping the propagation of these crafted UPDATE messages. The workaround is to configure BGP error tolerance by way of: [ protocols bgp bgp-error-tolerance ... ] Additional details can be found at https://www.juniper.net/documentation/us/en/software/junos/bgp/topics/topic-map/bgp-error-messages.h... https://www.juniper.net/documentation/us/en/software/junos/bgp/topics/topic-map/bgp-error-messages.html Juniper considers configuring this option to be a Best Common Practice (BCP) as it not only prevents this issue from happening, but protects against similar issues as well. This issue is being tracked as PR 1709837 https://prsearch.juniper.net/problemreport/PR1709837 which is visible on the Customer Support website. Note: Juniper SIRT's policy https://kb.juniper

workarounds

The workaround is to configure BGP error tolerance by way of: [ protocols bgp bgp-error-tolerance ... ] Additional details can be found at https://www.juniper.net/documentation/us/en/software/junos/bgp/topics/topic-map/bgp-error-messages.h... https://www.juniper.net/documentation/us/en/software/junos/bgp/topics/topic-map/bgp-error-messages.html Juniper considers configuring this option to be a Best Common Practice (BCP) as it not only prevents this issue from happening, but protects against similar issues as well.

ProductVulnerable rangeFixed versionAdvisory
Juniper Networks, Inc. Junos OS<20.4R3-S1020.4R3-S10advisory ↗
Juniper Networks, Inc. Junos OS>=21.1R1<=21.*21.*advisory ↗
Juniper Networks, Inc. Junos OS>=21.2<21.2R3-S521.2R3-S5advisory ↗
Juniper Networks, Inc. Junos OS>=21.3<21.3R3-S521.3R3-S5advisory ↗
Juniper Networks, Inc. Junos OS>=21.4<21.4R3-S721.4R3-S7advisory ↗
Juniper Networks, Inc. Junos OS>=22.1<22.1R3-S422.1R3-S4advisory ↗
Juniper Networks, Inc. Junos OS>=22.2<22.2R3-S322.2R3-S3advisory ↗
Juniper Networks, Inc. Junos OS>=22.3<22.3R3-S122.3R3-S1advisory ↗
Juniper Networks, Inc. Junos OS>=22.4<22.4R322.4R3advisory ↗
Juniper Networks, Inc. Junos OS>=23.2<23.2R223.2R2advisory ↗
Juniper Networks, Inc. Junos OS Evolved<20.4R3-S10-EVO20.4R3-S10-EVOadvisory ↗
Juniper Networks, Inc. Junos OS Evolved>=21.2-EVO<21.2R3-S7-EVO21.2R3-S7-EVOadvisory ↗
Juniper Networks, Inc. Junos OS Evolved>=21.3-EVO<21.3R3-S5-EVO21.3R3-S5-EVOadvisory ↗
Juniper Networks, Inc. Junos OS Evolved>=21.4-EVO<21.4R3-S5-EVO21.4R3-S5-EVOadvisory ↗
Juniper Networks, Inc. Junos OS Evolved>=22.1-EVO<22.1R3-S4-EVO22.1R3-S4-EVOadvisory ↗
Juniper Networks, Inc. Junos OS Evolved>=22.2-EVO<22.2R3-S3-EVO22.2R3-S3-EVOadvisory ↗
Juniper Networks, Inc. Junos OS Evolved>=22.3-EVO<22.3R3-S1-EVO22.3R3-S1-EVOadvisory ↗
Juniper Networks, Inc. Junos OS Evolved>=22.4-EVO<22.4R3-EVO22.4R3-EVOadvisory ↗
Juniper Networks, Inc. Junos OS Evolved>=23.2-EVO<23.2R2-EVO23.2R2-EVOadvisory ↗

References

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