A Missing Release of Memory after Effective Lifetime vulnerability in the Flow Processing Daemon (flowd) of Juniper Networks Junos OS allows a network-based, unauthenticated attacker to cause a Denial of Service (DoS). In an IPsec VPN environment, a memory leak will be seen if a DH or ECDH group is configured. Eventually the flowd process will crash and restart. This issue affects Juniper Networks Junos OS on SRX Series: All versions prior to 19.3R3-S7; 19.4 versions prior to 19.4R2-S8, 19.4R3-S10; 20.2 versions prior to 20.2R3-S6; 20.3 versions prior to 20.3R3-S5; 20.4 versions prior to 20.4R3-S5; 21.1 versions prior to 21.1R3-S4; 21.2 versions prior to 21.2R3; 21.3 versions prior to 21.3R3; 21.4 versions prior to 21.4R2.
Metrics
No CVSS v4.0
Attack Vector Network
Attack Complexity Low
Privileges Required None
Scope Unchanged
Confidentiality Impact None
Integrity Impact None
Availability Impact High
User Interaction None
No CVSS v3.0
No CVSS v2
This CVE is not in the KEV list.
Exploitation none
Automatable yes
Technical Impact partial
Affected Vendors & Products
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Juniper |
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Configuration 1 [-]
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References
Link | Providers |
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https://kb.juniper.net/JSA70213 |
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History
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Status: PUBLISHED
Assigner: juniper
Published:
Updated: 2025-04-08T13:33:02.446Z
Reserved: 2022-12-27T00:00:00.000Z
Link: CVE-2023-22417

Updated: 2024-08-02T10:07:06.550Z

Status : Modified
Published: 2023-01-13T00:15:11.830
Modified: 2024-11-21T07:44:46.693
Link: CVE-2023-22417

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