CVE-2020-1660

Junos OS: MX Series: Receipt of specific packets can cause services card to restart when DNS filtering is configured.

CRITICAL
9.9
CVSS Score
Published: October 16, 2020 at 08:31 PM UTC
Updated: June 17, 2026 at 03:02 AM UTC
1 product affected across 1 vendorJunos

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Severity
CRITICAL9.9
Exploit prediction
EPSS 0.8%

Description

When DNS filtering is enabled on Juniper Networks Junos MX Series with one of the following cards MS-PIC, MS-MIC or MS-MPC, an incoming stream of packets processed by the Multiservices PIC Management Daemon (mspmand) process, responsible for managing "URL Filtering service", may crash, causing the Services PIC to restart. While the Services PIC is restarting, all PIC services including DNS filtering service (DNS sink holing) will be bypassed until the Services PIC completes its boot process. This vulnerability might allow an attacker to cause an extended Denial of Service (DoS) attack against the device and to cause clients to be vulnerable to DNS based attacks by malicious DNS servers when they send DNS requests through the device. As a result, devices which were once protected by the DNS Filtering service are no longer protected and at risk of exploitation. This issue affects Juniper Networks Junos OS: 17.3 versions prior to 17.3R3-S8; 18.3 versions prior to 18.3R3-S1; 18.4 versions prior to 18.4R3; 19.1 versions prior to 19.1R3; 19.2 versions prior to 19.2R2; 19.3 versions prior to 19.3R3. This issue does not affect Juniper Networks Junos OS 17.4, 18.1, and 18.2.

Affected

Our own answer: ranges merged, affected separated from platform-only, with confidence and review flags.

Affected range stops below 17.3R3-S8, so it looks safe — our inference, not a vendor statement
Vendor states this is fixed in 17.4 (unaffected)
Vendor states this is fixed in 18.1 (unaffected)
Vendor states this is fixed in 18.2 (unaffected)
Affected range stops below 18.3R3-S1, so it looks safe — our inference, not a vendor statement
Affected range stops below 18.4R3, so it looks safe — our inference, not a vendor statement
Affected range stops below 19.1R3, so it looks safe — our inference, not a vendor statement
Affected range stops below 19.2R2, so it looks safe — our inference, not a vendor statement
Affected range stops below 19.3R3, so it looks safe — our inference, not a vendor statement

Remediation

No guide yet

No remediation guidance has been written for this CVE yet. What the record does show:

Patch and advisory references

References (1)

x_refsource_CONFIRMVendor Advisory
https://kb.juniper.net/JSA11054

CVSS

Attack Vector
NETWORK
Complexity
LOW
Privileges
NONE
User Interaction
NONE
Scope
CHANGED
Confidentiality
LOW
Integrity
LOW
Availability
HIGH
Vector?

Quick Info

StatusMODIFIED
CWE
CWE-362NVD-CWE-noinfo

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