An Improper Handling of Inconsistent Special Elements vulnerability in the Junos Services Framework (jsf) module of Juniper Networks Junos OS allows an unauthenticated network based attacker to cause a crash in the Packet Forwarding Engine (pfe) and thereby resulting in a Denial of Service (DoS).
Upon receiving malformed SSL traffic, the PFE crashes. A manual restart will be needed to recover the device.
This issue only affects devices with Juniper Networks Advanced Threat Prevention (ATP) Cloud enabled with Encrypted Traffic Insights (configured via βsecurity-metadata-streaming policyβ).
This issue affects Juniper Networks Junos OS: