What is CVE-2018-0048?

CVE-2018-0048 is a high-severity vulnerability in Juniper Junos, classified under Uncontrolled Resource Consumption. CVSS score: 7.5/10. Published 2018-10-10.

How severe is CVE-2018-0048?

High severity. CVSS v3 base score is 7.5 out of 10.

Resource exhaustion in Juniper Junos

CVE-2018-0048

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: 17.2 versions prior to 17.2R1-S7, 17.2R2-S6, 17.2R3; 17.2X75 versions prior to 17.2X75-D102, 17.2X75-D110; 17.3 versions prior to 17.3R2-S4, 17.3R3; 17.4 versions prior to 17.4R1-S5, 17.4R2; 18.1 versions prior to 18.1R2-S3, 18.1R3;

Vulnerability class: DoS (Denial of Service)

EPSS: 0.029 (85.4th percentile) — read the EPSS interpretation.

CVSS v3 metric

CVSS v3 base score 7.5 (High). Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H.

Affected products

Juniper Junos — versions 17.2, 17.2x75, 17.3
Juniper Networks Junos Os — versions 18.1, 17.3, 17.2

Weakness classification (CWE)

CWE-400 — Uncontrolled Resource Consumption

References

sirt@juniper.net (VDB Entry, Third Party Advisory, vdb-entry, x_refsource_BID)
sirt@juniper.net (VDB Entry, Third Party Advisory, vdb-entry, x_refsource_SECTRACK)
sirt@juniper.net (x_refsource_CONFIRM, Vendor Advisory)

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2018-0048?: CVE-2018-0048 is a high-severity vulnerability in Juniper Junos, classified under Uncontrolled Resource Consumption. CVSS score: 7.5/10. Published 2018-10-10.
How severe is CVE-2018-0048?: High severity. CVSS v3 base score is 7.5 out of 10.