Juniper Junos SRX Series Dynamic IPsec VPN DoS (JSA10620)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 73494

Synopsis

The remote device is missing a vendor-supplied security patch.

Description

According to its self-reported version number, the remote Juniper Junos device is affected by a denial of service vulnerability related to the Dynamic IPsec VPN service. A remote, unauthenticated attacker can exploit this vulnerability to cause new Dynamic VPN connections to fail for other users or cause high CPU consumption.

Note that this issue only affects SRX series devices with Dynamic IPsec VPN enabled.

Solution

Apply the relevant Junos software release or workaround referenced in Juniper advisory JSA10620.

See Also

https://kb.juniper.net/InfoCenter/index?page=content&id=JSA10620

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 73494

File Name: juniper_jsa10620.nasl

Version: 1.9

Type: combined

Published: 4/14/2014

Updated: 7/12/2018

Supported Sensors: Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 3.4

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5

Temporal Score: 3.7

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/o:juniper:junos

Required KB Items: Host/Juniper/model, Host/Juniper/JUNOS/Version, Host/Juniper/JUNOS/BuildDate

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 2/19/2014

Vulnerability Publication Date: 4/9/2014

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2014-0612

BID: 66759

JSA: JSA10620