CVE-2018-0006

MEDIUM

Juniper Junos - Denial of Service via High Rate VLAN Authentication Attempts

Title source: llm
STIX 2.1

Description

A high rate of VLAN authentication attempts sent from an adjacent host on the local broadcast domain can trigger high memory utilization by the BBE subscriber management daemon (bbe-smgd), and lead to a denial of service condition. The issue was caused by attempting to process an unbounded number of pending VLAN authentication requests, leading to excessive memory allocation. This issue only affects devices configured for DHCPv4/v6 over AE auto-sensed VLANs, utilized in Broadband Edge (BBE) deployments. Other configurations are unaffected by this issue. Affected releases are Juniper Networks Junos OS: 15.1 versions prior to 15.1R6-S2, 15.1R7; 16.1 versions prior to 16.1R5-S1, 16.1R6; 16.2 versions prior to 16.2R2-S2, 16.2R3; 17.1 versions prior to 17.1R2-S5, 17.1R3; 17.2 versions prior to 17.2R2.

References (2)

Core 2
Core References
Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry vdb-entry x_refsource_sectrack
http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1040184
Mitigation, Patch, Vendor Advisory x_refsource_confirm
https://kb.juniper.net/JSA10834

Scores

CVSS v3 6.5
EPSS 0.0030
EPSS Percentile 53.1%
Attack Vector ADJACENT_NETWORK
CVSS:3.0/AV:A/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Details

CWE
CWE-770
Status published
Products (5)
juniper/junos 15.1 (7 CPE variants)
juniper/junos 16.1 (6 CPE variants)
juniper/junos 16.2 r1 (2 CPE variants)
juniper/junos 17.1 r1 (2 CPE variants)
juniper/junos 17.2 r1
Published Jan 10, 2018
Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026