CVE Catalog

CVE-2005-4587

High
Published: Translated: NVD NIST

Summary

Juniper NetScreen-Security Manager (NSM) 2004 FP2 and FP3 are vulnerable to a denial of service attack via a long crafted string sent to port 7800 (GUI Server) or 7801 (Device Server), causing server components to crash or hang, though they are automatically restarted.

Risk Assessment

This attack can disrupt security management operations, preventing monitoring and configuration of network devices, thereby increasing the risk of unauthorized access or attacks.

Recommendation

Immediately upgrade to a newer version of NSM not affected by this vulnerability, and restrict access to ports 7800 and 7801 to trusted IP addresses only.

Related vulnerabilities

Original NVD description (English source)

Juniper NetScreen-Security Manager (NSM) 2004 FP2 and FP3 allow remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash or hang of server components that are automatically restarted) via a long crafted string on (1) port 7800 (the GUI Server port) or (2) port 7801 (the Device Server port).

Vulnerability data from NVD (NIST) · CISA KEV · EPSS