CVE-2023-44181: high-severity vulnerability in Juniper Networks Junos OS
Junos OS: QFX5k: l2 loop in the overlay impacts the stability in a EVPN/VXLAN environment
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21Vexday Risk Score
No sign of exploitation. No public exploitation artifact known so far.
ssvc Trackcvss 7.5epss 0.6%
An Improperly Implemented Security Check for Standard vulnerability in storm control of Juniper Networks Junos OS QFX5k devices allows packets to be punted to ARP queue causing a l2 loop resulting in a DDOS violations and DDOS syslog.
This issue is triggered when Storm control is enabled and ICMPv6 packets are present on device.
This issue affects Juniper Networks:
Junos OS
* All versions prior to 20.2R3-S6 on QFX5k;
* 20.3 versions prior to 20.3R3-S5 on QFX5k;
* 20.4 versions prior to 20.4R3-S5 on QFX5k;
* 21.1 versions prior to 21.1R3-S4 on QFX5k;
* 21.2 versions prior to 21.2R3-S3 on QFX5k;
* 21.3 versions prior to 21.3R3-S2 on QFX5k;
* 21.4 versions prior to 21.4R3 on QFX5k;
* 22.1 versions prior to 22.1R3 on QFX5k;
* 22.2 versions prior to 22.2R2 on QFX5k.
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Affected products
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