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CVE-2021-31368

An Uncontrolled Resource Consumption vulnerability in the kernel of Juniper Networks JUNOS OS allows an unauthenticated

An Uncontrolled Resource Consumption vulnerability in the kernel of Juniper Networks JUNOS OS allows an unauthenticated network based attacker to cause 100% CPU load and the device to become unresponsive by sending a flood of traffic to the out-of-band management ethernet port. Continued receipted of a flood will create a sustained Denial of Service (DoS) condition. Once the flood subsides the system will recover by itself. An indication that the system is affected by this issue would be that kernel and netisr process are shown to be using a lot of CPU cycles like in the following example output: user@host> show system processes extensive ... PID USERNAME PRI NICE SIZE RES STATE C TIME WCPU COMMAND 16 root -72 - 0K 304K WAIT 1 839:40 88.96% intr{swi1: netisr 0} 0 root 97 - 0K 160K RUN 1 732:43 87.99% kernel{bcm560xgmac0 que} This issue affects Juniper Networks JUNOS OS on EX2300 Series, EX3400 Series, and ACX710: All versions prior to 18.1R3-S13.

18.2 versions prior to 18.2R3-S8.

18.3 versions prior to 18.3R3-S5.

18.4 versions prior to 18.4R2-S8, 18.4R3-S9.

19.1 versions prior to 19.1R3-S5.

19.2 versions prior to 19.2R1-S7, 19.2R3-S3.

19.3 versions prior to 19.3R2-S6, 19.3R3-S2.

19.4 versions prior to 19.4R1-S4, 19.4R3-S3.

20.1 versions prior to 20.1R2-S2, 20.1R3.

20.2 versions prior to 20.2R3.

20.3 versions prior to 20.3R2-S1, 20.3R3.

20.4 versions prior to 20.4R2.

HIGH · CVSS 7.5 EPSS 0.00513
Schedule remediation
  • CVSS base score ≥ 7.0
Sigma rules0 YARA rules0

Affected Products & Versions

2
juniper junosall versions

Scoring & Timeline

7.5
HIGH · CVSS v3.1 · sirt@juniper.net
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Attack Vector
Network Adjacent Local Physical
Attack Complexity
Low High
Privileges Required
None Low High
User Interaction
None Required
Scope
Unchanged Changed
Confidentiality
None Low High
Integrity
None Low High
Availability
None Low High
Published to NVD19 Oct 2021 · 07:15 PM
CVSS VectorCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
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References & Sources

1
Source URLs (vendor pages, mailing lists, write-ups). Exploit/PoC links are in their own section above to avoid duplication.
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