CVE-2023-28979CWE-754

Junos OS: In a 6PE scenario upon receipt of a specific IPv6 packet an integrity check fails

Medium · published April 17, 2023

CVSS v3.1
4.7
EPSS
0%
Percentile
18.9
In the wild
Unconfirmed
What it is

An Improper Check for Unusual or Exceptional Conditions vulnerability in the kernel of Juniper Networks Junos OS allows an adjacent unauthenticated attacker to bypass an integrity check. In a 6PE scenario and if an additional integrity check is configured, it will fail to drop specific malformed IPv6 packets, and then these packets will be forwarded to other connected networks. This issue affects Juniper Networks Junos OS: All versions prior to 19.3R3-S7; 19.4 versions prior to 19.4R3-S9; 20.2 versions prior to 20.2R3-S7; 20.3 versions prior to 20.3R3-S5; 20.4 versions prior to 20.4R3-S4; 21.1 versions prior to 21.1R3-S3; 21.2 versions prior to 21.2R3-S2; 21.3 versions prior to 21.3R3-S1; 21.4 versions prior to 21.4R2-S1, 21.4R3; 22.1 versions prior to 22.1R2; 22.2 versions prior to 22.2R2.

The record
Technical detail
CVSS v3.1
4.7 · MEDIUM
Vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:A/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:N/I:L/A:N
CVSS v4.0
Not supplied
EPSS
0.00275 · 18.9th percentile
Weakness
CWE-754 · Improper Check for Unusual or Exceptional Conditions
Published
2023-04-17T00:00Z
EPSS history
Timeline
  • 17 APR 00:00Z
    Junos OS: In a 6PE scenario upon receipt of a specific IPv6 packet an integrity check fails
    cvelistv5