Junos OS and Junos OS Evolved: Receipt of a specific SNMPv3 request results in memory leak and eventual snmpd crash
13Vexday Risk Score
No sign of exploitation. No public exploitation artifact known so far.
ssvc Trackcvss 5.3epss 0.2%
exploitation probability
0.2%top 86% of all CVEs
observed exploitation
nono source reports it
An Out-of-bounds Write vulnerability in the SNMP daemon (snmpd) of Juniper Networks Junos OS and Junos OS Evolved allows an authenticated network-based attacker sending specific valid SNMPv3 queries to trigger a memory leak. Over time, continuous receipt of these queries will result in snmpd process memory exhaustion, resulting in a process crash and restart, impacting the ability to monitor the system via SNMP.
Memory usage can be monitored using the following command:
user@device> show system processes extensive | match snmpd
This issue affects:
Junos OS:
* all versions before 21.2R3-S8;
* from 21.4 before 21.4R3-S7;
* from 22.1 before 22.1R3-S6;
* from 22.2 before 22.2R3-S4;
* from 22.3 before 22.3R3-S3;
* from 22.4 before 22.4R3-S2;
* from 23.2 before 23.2R2;
* from 23.4 before 23.4R2.
Junos OS Evolved:
* all versions before 21.2R3-S8-EVO;
* from 21.4 before 21.4R3-S7-EVO;
* all versions of 22.1-EVO,
* from 22.2 before 22.2R3-S4-EVO;
* from 22.3 before 22.3R3-S3-EVO;
* all versions of 22.4-EVO,
* from 23.2 before 23.2R2-EVO;
* from 23.4 before 23.4R2-EVO.
CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:L/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:L/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/AU:Y/R:A/V:C/RE:M/U:Green