CVE-2023-44204
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v2025.03.14There is a 0.1% chance that this vulnerability will be exploited in the wild within the next 30 days.
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Description
An Improper Validation of Syntactic Correctness of Input vulnerability in Routing Protocol Daemon (rpd) Juniper Networks Junos OS and Junos OS Evolved allows an unauthenticated, network based attacker to cause a Denial of Service (DoS).
When a malformed BGP UPDATE packet is received over an established BGP session, the rpd crashes and restarts.
This issue affects both eBGP and iBGP implementations.
This issue affects:
Juniper Networks Junos OS
* 21.4 versions prior to 21.4R3-S4;
* 22.1 versions prior to 22.1R3-S3;
* 22.2 versions prior to 22.2R3-S2;
* 22.3 versions prior to 22.3R2-S2, 22.3R3;
* 22.4 versions prior to 22.4R2-S1, 22.4R3;
* 23.2 versions prior to 23.2R1, 23.2R2;
Juniper Networks Junos OS Evolved
* 21.4 versions prior to 21.4R3-S5-EVO;
* 22.1 versions prior to 22.1R3-S3-EVO;
* 22.2 versions prior to 22.2R3-S3-EVO;
* 22.3 versions prior to 22.3R2-S2-EVO;
* 22.4 versions prior to 22.4R3-EVO;
* 23.2 versions prior to 23.2R2-EVO;
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CVSS Vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:A/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
References
Advisory provided by GitHub Security Advisory Database. Published: October 13, 2023, Modified: May 2, 2025