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Juniper Junos OS MX Series DoS (JSA11077)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 142145

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Synopsis

The remote device is missing a vendor-supplied security patch.

Description

According to the self reported version of Junos OS on the remote device it is affected by a denial of service (DoS) vulnerability. An unauthenticated attacker can continuously send crafted IPv6 packets through the device causing repetitive MS-PIC process crashes, resulting in an extended Denial of Service condition.

Note that Nessus has not tested for this issue but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

Solution

Apply the relevant Junos software release referenced in Juniper advisory JSA11077

See Also

https://kb.juniper.net/JSA11077

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 142145

File Name: juniper_jsa11077.nasl

Version: 1.6

Type: combined

Published: 10/30/2020

Updated: 2/19/2021

Supported Sensors: Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 1.4

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5

Temporal Score: 3.7

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2020-1680

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5.3

Temporal Score: 4.6

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L

Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/E:U/RL:O/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/o:juniper:junos

Required KB Items: Host/Juniper/model, Host/Juniper/JUNOS/Version

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 10/14/2020

Vulnerability Publication Date: 10/14/2020

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2020-1680

IAVA: 2020-A-0494-S

JSA: JSA11077