CVE intelligence and bounded remediation

CVE-2017-2303 — Juniper Junos security vulnerability

High CVSS 7.8

On Juniper Networks products or platforms running Junos OS 12.1X46 prior to 12.1X46-D50, 12.1X47 prior to 12.1X47-D40, 12.3 prior to 12.3R13, 12.3X48 prior to 12.3X48-D30, 13.2X51 prior to 13.2X51-D40, 13.3 prior to 13.3R10, 14.1 prior to 14.1R8, 14.1X53 prior to 14.1X53-D35, 14.1X55 prior to 14.1X55-D35, 14.2 prior to 14.2R5, 15.1 prior to 15.1F6 or 15.1R3, 15.1X49 prior to 15.1X49-D30 or 15.1X49-D40, 15.1X53 prior to 15.1X53-D35, and where RIP is enabled, certain RIP advertisements received by the router may cause the RPD daemon to crash resulting in a denial of service condition.

Severity
High
CVSS
7.8 (2.0)
Published
2017-05-30
CISA KEV
Not currently listed
Ecosystem
operating-system

Affected products

  • juniper / junos / 12.1x46
  • juniper / junos / 12.1x47

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Matched remediation archetype

Resource exhaustion and denial of service

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Check exposure

  • Identify attacker-influenced work factors including input size, nesting, compression, fan-out, regex cost, allocation, recursion, retries, and connection lifetime.
  • Map per-request and shared CPU, memory, disk, descriptor, thread, queue, and downstream-service limits.
  • Determine whether authentication, tenancy, quotas, and rate controls apply before expensive processing begins.

Remediate safely

  • Bound input size, nesting, expansion, work, concurrency, queue depth, retries, and execution time before resource-intensive processing.
  • Release resources on every success, error, cancellation, and timeout path and use backpressure instead of unbounded buffering.
  • Update affected components and add small deterministic tests that assert resource ceilings rather than exhausting a host.

Authoritative sources

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