CVE-2023-22417

HIGH

Juniper Junos OS - Denial of Service via Flow Processing Daemon Memory Leak

Title source: llm
STIX 2.1

Description

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.

References (1)

Core 1
Core References

Scores

CVSS v3 7.5
EPSS 0.0044
EPSS Percentile 63.4%
Attack Vector NETWORK
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

CISA SSVC

Vulnrichment
Exploitation none
Automatable yes
Technical Impact partial

Details

CWE
CWE-401
Status published
Products (3)
juniper/junos 19.3 (17 CPE variants)
juniper/junos 19.4 (23 CPE variants)
juniper/junos 20.2 (10 CPE variants)
Published Jan 13, 2023
Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026