Junos OS: A race condition in the storm control profile may allow an attacker to cause a Denial of Service condition (Juniper Networks Junos OS)

CVE-2021-0244
HIGH 7.4

At a glance

Source
NVD
EPSS
EPSS 0.64 % · percentile 51 ()
State
PUBLISHED
Published
Updated
Assigner
juniper
NVD status
Modified

Description

A signal handler race condition exists in the Layer 2 Address Learning Daemon (L2ALD) of Juniper Networks Junos OS due to the absence of a specific protection mechanism to avoid a race condition which may allow an attacker to bypass the storm-control feature on devices. This issue is a corner case and only occurs during specific actions taken by an administrator of a device under certain specifics actions which triggers the event. The event occurs less frequently on devices which are not configured with Virtual Chassis configurations, and more frequently on devices configured in Virtual Chassis configurations. This issue is not specific to any particular Junos OS platform. An Indicator of Compromise (IoC) may be seen by reviewing log files for the following error message seen by executing the following show statement: show log messages | grep storm Result to look for: /kernel: GENCFG: op 58 (Storm Control Blob) failed; err 1 (Unknown) This issue affects: Juniper Networks Junos OS: 14.1X53 versions prior to 14.1X53-D49 on EX Series; 15.1 versions prior to 15.1R7-S6; 15.1X49 versions prior to 15.1X49-D191, 15.1X49-D200 on SRX Series; 16.1 versions prior to 16.1R7-S7; 16.2 versions prior to 16.2R2-S11, 16.2R3; 17.1 versions prior to 17.1R2-S11, 17.1R3; 17.2 versions prior to 17.2R2-S8, 17.2R3-S3; 17.3 versions prior to 17.3R2-S5, 17.3R3-S7; 17.4 versions prior to 17.4R2-S9, 17.4R3; 18.1 versions prior to 18.1R3-S5; 18.2 versions prior to 18.2R2-S6, 18.2R3; 18.3 versions prior to 18.3R1-S7, 18.3R2-S3, 18.3R3; 18.4 versions prior to 18.4R1-S5, 18.4R2; 19.1 versions prior to 19.1R1-S4, 19.1R2.

Weaknesses (CWE)

  • CWE-362 — Concurrent Execution using Shared Resource with Improper Synchronization

References

Scores

VersionScoreVectorScored by
CVSS 3.1HIGH 7.4CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:N/I:N/A:Hjuniper
CVSS 3.1HIGH 7.4CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:N/I:N/A:HNVD · sirt@juniper.net (Secondary)
CVSS 2.0MEDIUM 4.3AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:PNVD · nvd@nist.gov (Primary)

European references

CERT-FR advisories

Affected configurations (NVD CPE)

Affected products

ProductVersions
Juniper Networks · Junos OSaffected 14.1X53 < 14.1X53-D49
Juniper Networks · Junos OSaffected 15.1 < 15.1R7-S6 ; affected 16.1 < 16.1R7-S7 ; affected 16.2 < 16.2R2-S11, 16.2R3 ; affected 17.1 < 17.1R2-S11, 17.1R3 ; affected 17.2 < 17.2R2-S8, 17.2R3-S3 ; affected 17.3 < 17.3R2-S5, 17.3R3-S7
Juniper Networks · Junos OSaffected 15.1X49 < 15.1X49-D191, 15.1X49-D200

Sources

SourceLicence
CVE List (CVEProject cvelistV5)CVE Program Terms of Use
EPSS (FIRST.org)FIRST — attribution requested
ENISA EUVDENISA — reproduction authorised, source acknowledged
CERT-FR (ANSSI)Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0
NVD (NIST) via fkie-cad/nvd-json-data-feedsPublic domain — this product uses data from the NVD API but is not endorsed or certified by the NVD