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medium 6.5

CVE-2023-44204 json

Junos OS and Junos OS Evolved: The rpd will crash upon receiving a malformed BGP UPDATE message

published 2023-10-12 3 y ago modified 2026-06-17 4 mo ago also EUVD-2023-48563

cvss
6.5
version 3.1, CNA
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
0.3%
EPSS 0.3% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 22%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

An Improper Validation of Syntactic Correctness of Input vulnerability in Routing Protocol Daemon (rpd) Juniper Networks Junos OS and Junos OS Evolved allows an unauthenticated, network based attacker to cause a Denial of Service (DoS).

When a malformed BGP UPDATE packet is received over an established BGP session, the rpd crashes and restarts.

This issue affects both eBGP and iBGP implementations.

This issue affects:

Juniper Networks Junos OS

* 21.4 versions prior to 21.4R3-S4; * 22.1 versions prior to 22.1R3-S3; * 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; * 23.2 versions prior to 23.2R1, 23.2R2;

Juniper Networks Junos OS Evolved

* 21.4 versions prior to 21.4R3-S5-EVO; * 22.1 versions prior to 22.1R3-S3-EVO; * 22.2 versions prior to 22.2R3-S3-EVO; * 22.3 versions prior to 22.3R2-S2-EVO; * 22.4 versions prior to 22.4R3-EVO; * 23.2 versions prior to 23.2R2-EVO;

Patch / fix

  • Juniper Networks Junos OS 21.4R3-S4, 22.1R3-S3, 22.2R3-S2, 22.3R2-S2, 22.3R3, 22.4R2-S1, 22.4R3, 23.2R1, 23.2R2
  • Juniper Networks Junos OS Evolved 21.4R3-S5-EVO, 22.1R3-S3-EVO, 22.2R3-S3-EVO, 22.3R2-S2-EVO, 22.4R3-EVO, 23.2R2-EVO

CISA SSVC

Exploitation
none
Automatable
no
Technical impact
partial
Assessed
2 y ago

Exploit prediction

0.30% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 22% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-08).

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
CNA 3.1 6.5 CVSS:3.1/AV:A/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
NVD 3.1 6.5 CVSS:3.1/AV:A/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Affected products

  • Juniper Networks Junos OS
  • Juniper Networks Junos OS Evolved

Classification

Weakness
  • CWE-1286 Improper Validation of Syntactic Correctness of Input
  • CWE-20 Improper Input Validation

References

Sources

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