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CVE-2023-28974

An Improper Check for Unusual or Exceptional Conditions vulnerability in the bbe-smgd of Juniper Networks Junos OS allow

An Improper Check for Unusual or Exceptional Conditions vulnerability in the bbe-smgd of Juniper Networks Junos OS allows an unauthenticated, adjacent attacker to cause a Denial of Service (DoS). In a Broadband Edge / Subscriber Management scenario on MX Series when a specifically malformed ICMP packet addressed to the device is received from a subscriber the bbe-smgd will crash, affecting the subscriber sessions that are connecting, updating, or terminating. Continued receipt of such packets will lead to a sustained DoS condition. When this issue happens the below log can be seen if the traceoptions for the processes smg-service are enabled: BBE_TRACE(TRACE_LEVEL_INFO, "%s: Dropped unsupported ICMP PKT ... This issue affects Juniper Networks Junos OS on MX Series: All versions prior to 19.4R3-S11.

20.2 versions prior to 20.2R3-S7.

20.3 versions prior to 20.3R3-S6.

20.4 versions prior to 20.4R3-S6.

21.1 versions prior to 21.1R3-S4.

21.2 versions prior to 21.2R3-S4.

21.3 versions prior to 21.3R3-S3.

21.4 versions prior to 21.4R3-S2.

22.1 versions prior to 22.1R2-S2, 22.1R3.

22.2 versions prior to 22.2R2.

22.3 versions prior to 22.3R1-S2, 22.3R2.

HIGH · CVSS 7.4 EPSS 0.00243
Schedule remediation
  • CVSS base score ≥ 7.0
Sigma rules0 YARA rules0

Weakness Classification

Affected Products & Versions

2
juniper junosall versions

Scoring & Timeline

7.4
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 NVD17 Apr 2023 · 10:15 PM
CVSS VectorCVSS:3.1/AV:A/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:N/I:N/A:H
SSVC triage · cisa-vulnrichment
Exploitation
none
Automatable
no
Technical impact
partial
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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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