An Improper Check for Unusual or Exceptional Conditions vulnerability in the Packet Forwarding Engine (PFE) of Juniper Networks Junos OS on MX Series…
An Improper Check for Unusual or Exceptional Conditions vulnerability in the Packet Forwarding Engine (PFE) of Juniper Networks Junos OS on MX Series with SPC3 allows an unauthenticated, network-based attacker to cause a Denial-of-Service (DoS). On MX Series with SPC3 line-card and source NAT configuration, when a specific malformed IPv6 packet is received, it is not dropped but instead a session is created and NAT resources are allocated. Continued receipt of such packets will eventually lead to session or resource exhaustion, which will impact all traffic through the device. To recover th
Read at NIST National Vulnerability Database (CVE API 2.0)
- Vendor
- Juniper Networks
- Product
- Junos OS, SRX / MX / EX / QFX
- CVSS
- 7.5
- EPSS
- 0.003 (p27)
- Exposure class
- Edge / VPN / firewall
Why it ranks 28 (Notable)
- CVSS 7.5 high
- Exposed product class: edge / VPN / firewall
- Widely deployed vendor product (Juniper Networks)
- Recency: items published within 24 hours gain 15, within 72 hours 6, within 7 days 2.