CVE intelligence and bounded remediation

CVE-2020-1634 — Juniper Junos security vulnerability

High CVSS 7.5

On High-End SRX Series devices, in specific configurations and when specific networking events or operator actions occur, an SPC receiving genuine multicast traffic may core. Subsequently, all FPCs in a chassis may reset causing a Denial of Service. This issue affects both IPv4 and IPv6. This issue affects: Juniper Networks Junos OS 12.3X48 version 12.3X48-D80 and later versions prior to 12.3X48-D95 on High-End SRX Series. This issue does not affect Branch SRX Series devices.

Severity
High
CVSS
7.5 (3.1)
Published
2020-04-08
CISA KEV
Not currently listed
Ecosystem
operating-system
Weaknesses
CWE-190

Affected products

  • juniper / junos / 12.3x48

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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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