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CVE-2023-28982 — A Missing Release of Memory after Effective Lifetime vulnerability in the routin

A Missing Release of Memory after Effective Lifetime vulnerability in the routing protocol daemon of Juniper Networks Junos OS and Junos OS Evolved allows an unauthenticated, network based attacker to cause a Denial of Service (DoS). In a BGP rib sharding scenario, when an attrib

CVSS
7.5 HIGH
EPSS
0.34% (top 43.30%)
CWE
CWE-401
Published
2023-04-17T00:00:00.000Z
Last modified
2025-02-05T21:39:58.563Z
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

01What is this vulnerability?

A Missing Release of Memory after Effective Lifetime vulnerability in the routing protocol daemon of Juniper Networks Junos OS and Junos OS Evolved allows an unauthenticated, network based attacker to cause a Denial of Service (DoS). In a BGP rib sharding scenario, when an attribute of an active BGP route is updated memory will leak. As rpd memory usage increases over time the rpd process will…

02Affected products

VendorProductVersions
Juniper NetworksJunos OS20.3, 20.4, 21.1, 21.2, 21.3
Juniper NetworksJunos OS Evolved20.3R1-EVO, 20.4-EVO, 21.2-EVO, 21.3-EVO

03Active exploitation status

Not currently listed on the CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog. EPSS is the best forward-looking signal — see the EPSS row above.

04Recommended remediation

05Technical details

For the full vendor write-up, exploit chains, and reference implementations, see the references list in section 09.

06Detection signatures

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07Related CVEs

No directly-cited follow-up CVEs in the KB record for this advisory. The references list in section 09 carries the vendor cross-references.

08Timeline

09References

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