# Junos OS and Junos OS Evolved: An rpd crash occurs when a specific L2VPN command is run

CVE record · `CVE-2023-36840`

- **Identifiers:** `CVE-2023-36840`
- **State:** Confirmed
- **Severity:** CVSS 5.5 Medium
- **Critical:** No
- **CNA:** juniper
- **Weakness (CWE):** [CWE-617](https://cwe.mitre.org/data/definitions/617.html)
- **Tags:** [Denial of service](https://agentprime.io/advisories/tag/dos.md)
- **Technologies:** [Juniper Networks Junos OS](https://agentprime.io/advisories/technology/juniper-networks-junos-os.md) · [Juniper Networks Junos OS Evolved](https://agentprime.io/advisories/technology/juniper-networks-junos-os-evolved.md)
- **Published:** 14 Jul 2023
- **Updated:** 22 Oct 2024
- **Reviewed by a person:** No

Published by the CVE Program (CNA: juniper) at 14 Jul 2023, 17:43 UTC. agentprime has not analysed this yet, so whether it affects any app is not known. This CVE names a vendor and product rather than a package, so the lockfile check doesn’t match it.

## Affected products, as the CNA wrote them

- Vendor: Juniper Networks. Product: Junos OS.
  - affected: `unspecified to before 19.3R3-S10` (custom)
  - affected: `20.1 to before 20.1R3-S4` (custom)
  - affected: `20.2 to before 20.2R3-S6` (custom)
  - affected: `20.3 to before 20.3R3-S6` (custom)
  - affected: `20.4 to before 20.4R3-S5` (custom)
  - affected: `21.1 to before 21.1R3-S4` (custom)
  - affected: `21.2 to before 21.2R3-S3` (custom)
  - affected: `21.3 to before 21.3R3-S2` (custom)
  - affected: `21.4 to before 21.4R3` (custom)
  - affected: `22.1 to before 22.1R3` (custom)
  - affected: `22.2 to before 22.2R2` (custom)
  - affected: `22.3 to before 22.3R2` (custom)
  - Other versions: unaffected
- Vendor: Juniper Networks. Product: Junos OS Evolved.
  - affected: `unspecified to before 20.4R3-S7-EVO` (custom)
  - affected: `21.1 to before 21.1R3-S3-EVO` (custom)
  - affected: `21.2 to before 21.2R3-S5-EVO` (custom)
  - affected: `21.3 to before 21.3R3-S4-EVO` (custom)
  - affected: `21.4 to before 21.4R3-EVO` (custom)
  - affected: `22.1 to before 22.1R3-EVO` (custom)
  - affected: `22.2 to before 22.2R2-EVO` (custom)
  - affected: `22.3 to before 22.3R2-EVO` (custom)
  - Other versions: unaffected

## Not analysed yet

We haven’t published our own analysis of this CVE. If a person reviews it, this page will say what’s affected and what has to be true for it to matter.

## Severity and exploitation

- 5.5 Medium, CVSS 3.1: `CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H`, from CNA (juniper)

- **CISA KEV:** Not listed.
- **EPSS:** 0.0019, the 9th percentile, on 6 Nov 2026: FIRST’s estimate of the chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

## Timeline

This record came from the full history of the CVE Program, published 14 Jul 2023. New records show when each source confirmed them.

## Sources

- [CVE List: CVE-2023-36840](https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2023-36840)
- [NVD: CVE-2023-36840](https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2023-36840)

### References from the CNA

- <https://supportportal.juniper.net/JSA71647>

Facts on this page come from the CVE List as the CNA published them, with CVSS from the sources named above, CISA KEV and FIRST EPSS. Vendors, products and versions are shown as the CNA wrote them. We don’t reproduce the CVE’s description.

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