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high 7.5

CVE-2018-0048 json

Junos OS: Memory exhaustion denial of service vulnerability in Routing Protocols Daemon (RPD) with Juniper Extension Toolkit (JET) support.

published 2018-10-10 8 y ago modified 2026-06-17 4 mo ago also EUVD-2018-0872

cvss
7.5
version 3.0, CNA
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
2.9%
EPSS 2.9% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 86%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

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;

Patch / fix

  • Juniper Networks Junos OS 17.2R1-S7, 17.2R2-S6, 17.2R3, 17.2X75-D102, 17.2X75-D110, 17.3R2-S4, 17.3R3, 17.4R1-S5, 17.4R2, 18.1R2-S3, 18.1R3

Exploit prediction

2.89% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 86% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-09).

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
CNA 3.0 7.5 CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
NVD 3.0 7.5 CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
NVD 2.0 5.0 AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

Affected products

  • Juniper Networks Junos OS

Classification

Weakness
  • CWE-400 Uncontrolled Resource Consumption

References

Sources

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