An Incorrect Comparison vulnerability in the local address verification API of Juniper Networks Junos OS Evolved allows an unauthenticated network-adjacent attacker to create sessions or send traffic to the device using the network and broadcast address of the subnet assigned to an interface. This is unintended and unexpected behavior and can allow an attacker to bypass certain compensating controls, such as stateless firewall filters.
This issue affects Junos OS Evolved:
The product compares two entities in a security-relevant context, but the comparison is incorrect, which may lead to resultant weaknesses.
This Pillar covers several possibilities: