A vulnerability in the Routing Protocols Daemon (RPD) with Juniper Extension Toolkit (JET) support can allow a network based unauthenticated attacker to cause a severe memory exhaustion condition on the device. This can have an adverse impact on the system performance and availability.
This issue only affects devices with JET support running Junos OS 17.2R1 and subsequent releases. Other versions of Junos OS are unaffected by this vulnerability.
Affected releases are Juniper Networks Junos OS:
Juniper SIRT is not aware of any malicious exploitation of this vulnerability.
This issue was found during internal product security testing or research.
This issue has been assigned CVE-2018-0048 .
The following software releases have been updated to resolve this specific issue: 17.2R1-S7, 17.2R2-S6, 17.2R3, 17.2X75-D43, 17.2X75-D102, 17.2X75-D110, 17.3R2-S4, 17.3R3, 17.4R1-S5, 17.4R2, 18.1R2-S3, 18.1R3, 18.2R1, 18.2X75-D10, 18.3R1, and all subsequent releases.
This issue is being tracked as PR 1344177 which is visible on the Customer Support website.
Note: Juniper SIRT's policy is not to evaluate releases which are beyond End of Engineering (EOE) or End of Life (EOL).
Software Releases, patches and updates are available at https://www.juniper.net/support/downloads/ .
Use access lists or firewall filters to limit access to the device only from trusted administrative hosts, networks and users.
2018-10-10: Initial publication 2020-04-10: April update: Included information that releases in 17.2X75 before 17.2X75-D43 are affected, and that 17.2X75-D43, and all subsequent releases are resolved.