CVE-2020-1645

HIGH

Juniper Junos OS 17.3-19.4 - Denial of Service via DNS Filtering Packet Stream

Title source: llm
STIX 2.1

Description

When DNS filtering is enabled on Juniper Networks Junos MX Series with one of the following cards MS-PIC, MS-MIC or MS-MPC, an incoming stream of packets processed by the Multiservices PIC Management Daemon (mspmand) process, responsible for managing "URL Filtering service", may crash, causing the Services PIC to restart. While the Services PIC is restarting, all PIC services including DNS filtering service (DNS sink holing) will be bypassed until the Services PIC completes its boot process. If the issue occurs, system core-dumps output will show a crash of mspmand process: root@device> show system core-dumps -rw-rw---- 1 nobody wheel 575685123 <Date> /var/tmp/pics/mspmand.core.<*>.gz This issue affects Juniper Networks Junos OS: 17.3 versions prior to 17.3R3-S8; 18.3 versions prior to 18.3R2-S4, 18.3R3-S1; 18.4 versions prior to 18.4R2-S5, 18.4R3; 19.1 versions prior to 19.1R2-S2, 19.1R3; 19.2 versions prior to 19.2R1-S5, 19.2R2; 19.3 versions prior to 19.3R2-S3, 19.3R3; 19.4 versions prior to 19.4R1-S3, 19.4R2. This issue does not affect Juniper Networks Junos OS releases prior to 17.3R2.

References (1)

Core 1
Core References
Vendor Advisory x_refsource_confirm
https://kb.juniper.net/JSA11028

Scores

CVSS v3 8.3
EPSS 0.0027
EPSS Percentile 50.5%
Attack Vector NETWORK
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:L

Details

CWE
CWE-362
Status published
Products (5)
juniper/junos 17.3 (13 CPE variants)
juniper/junos 18.3 (12 CPE variants)
juniper/junos 18.4 (11 CPE variants)
juniper/junos 19.1 (8 CPE variants)
juniper/junos 19.2 (6 CPE variants)
Published Jul 17, 2020
Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026