# cveboard — Historical CVE brief

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Exploitation unknown; this catalogue does not assess exploitation.

## Source facts (JSON-quoted data)
CNA source text (English)
id: "CVE-2023-28959"
idYear: 2023
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2023-04-17T00:00:00.000Z"
updatedAt: "2025-03-03T19:31:31.592Z"
importedAt: "2026-10-24T01:56:53.804Z"
snapshot: {"id":"cve_2026-10-24_midnight_baseline","at":"2026-10-24T00:00:00.000Z","source":"https://github.com/CVEProject/cvelistV5/releases/tag/cve_2026-10-24_0100Z"}
url: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2023-28959"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2023-28959.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2023-28959"
title: "Junos OS: QFX10002: PFE wedges and restarts upon receipt of specific malformed packets"
summary: "An Improper Check or Handling of Exceptional Conditions vulnerability in packet processing of Juniper Networks Junos OS on QFX10002 allows an unauthenticated, adjacent attacker on the local broadcast domain sending a malformed packet to the device, causing all PFEs other than the inbound PFE to wedge and to eventually restart, resulting in a Denial of Service (DoS) condition. Continued receipt and processing of this packet will create a sustained Denial of Service (DoS) condition. This issue can only be triggered by sending a specific malformed packet to the device. Transit traffic does not trigger this issue. An indication of this issue occurring can be seen through the following log messages: fpc0 expr_hostbound_packet_handler: Receive pe 73? fpc0 Cmerror Op Set: PE Chip: PE0[0]: PGQ:misc_intr: 0x00000020: Enqueue of a packet with out-of-range VOQ in 192K-VOQ mode (URI: /fpc/0/pfe/0/cm/0/PE_Chip/0/PECHIP_CMERROR_PGQ_MISC_INT_EVENTS_ENQ_192K_VIOL) The logs list below can also be observed when this issue occurs fpc0 Error: /fpc/0/pfe/0/cm/0/PE_Chip/0/PECHIP_CMERROR_PGQ_MISC_INT_EVENTS_ENQ_192K_VIOL (0x210107), scope: pfe, category: functional, severity: major, module: PE Chip, type: Description for PECHIP_CMERROR_PGQ_MISC_INT_EVENTS_ENQ_192K_VIOL fpc0 Performing action cmalarm for error /fpc/0/pfe/0/cm/0/PE_Chip/0/PECHIP_CMERROR_PGQ_MISC_INT_EVENTS_ENQ_192K_VIOL (0x210107) in module: PE Chip with scope: pfe category: functional level: major fpc0 Error: /fpc/0/pfe/0/cm/0/PE_Chip/0/PECHIP_CMERROR_CM_INT_REG_DCHK_PIPE (0x21011a), scope: pfe, category: functional, severity: fatal, module: PE Chip, type: Description for PECHIP_CMERROR_CM_INT_REG_DCHK_PIPE fpc0 Performing action cmalarm for error /fpc/0/pfe/0/cm/0/PE_Chip/0/PECHIP_CMERROR_CM_INT_REG_DCHK_PIPE (0x21011a) in module: PE Chip with scope: pfe category: functional level: fatal fpc0 Performing action disable-pfe for error /fpc/0/pfe/0/cm/0/PE_Chip/0/PECHIP_CMERROR_CM_INT_REG_DCHK_PIPE (0x21011a) in module: PE Chip with scope: pfe category: functional level: fatal This issue affects Juniper Networks Junos OS on QFX10002: All versions prior to 19.1R3-S10; 19.4 versions prior to 19.4R3-S11; 20.2 versions prior to 20.2R3-S7; 20.4 versions prior to 20.4R3-S6; 21.1 versions prior to 21.1R3-S4; 21.2 versions prior to 21.2R3-S4; 21.3 versions prior to 21.3R3-S3; 21.4 versions prior to 21.4R3-S2; 22.1 versions prior to 22.1R3-S1; 22.2 versions prior to 22.2R2-S1, 22.2R3; 22.3 versions prior to 22.3R1-S2, 22.3R2."
affected: [{"versions":[{"version":"unspecified","status":"affected","versionType":"custom","lessThan":"19.1R3-S10"},{"version":"19.4","status":"affected","versionType":"custom","lessThan":"19.4R3-S11"},{"version":"20.2","status":"affected","versionType":"custom","lessThan":"20.2R3-S7"},{"version":"20.4","status":"affected","versionType":"custom","lessThan":"20.4R3-S6"},{"version":"21.1","status":"affected","versionType":"custom","lessThan":"21.1R3-S4"},{"version":"21.2","status":"affected","versionType":"custom","lessThan":"21.2R3-S4"},{"version":"21.3","status":"affected","versionType":"custom","lessThan":"21.3R3-S3"},{"version":"21.4","status":"affected","versionType":"custom","lessThan":"21.4R3-S2"},{"version":"22.1","status":"affected","versionType":"custom","lessThan":"22.1R3-S1"},{"version":"22.2","status":"affected","versionType":"custom","lessThan":"22.2R2-S1, 22.2R3"},{"version":"22.3","status":"affected","versionType":"custom","lessThan":"22.3R1-S2, 22.3R2"}],"vendor":"Juniper Networks","product":"Junos OS","platforms":["QFX10002"]}]

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