CVE-2018-0020
Junos OS may be impacted by the receipt of a malformed BGP UPDATE which can lead to a routing process daemon (rpd) crash and restart.
Does this matter?
High impact if exploited, but EPSS currently rates exploitation as unlikely (1.34%). Schedule it in the normal patch cycle and watch for a rise in EPSS or a public exploit.
Description
Junos OS may be impacted by the receipt of a malformed BGP UPDATE which can lead to a routing process daemon (rpd) crash and restart. Receipt of a repeated malformed BGP UPDATEs can result in an extended denial of service condition for the device. This malformed BGP UPDATE does not propagate to other BGP peers. Affected releases are Juniper Networks Junos OS: 14.1X53 versions prior to 14.1X53-D47; 15.1 versions prior to 15.1F6-S10, 15.1R4-S9, 15.1R6-S6, 15.1R7; 15.1X49 versions prior to 15.1X49-D130 on SRX; 15.1X53 versions prior to 15.1X53-D66 on QFX10K; 15.1X53 versions prior to 15.1X53-D58 on EX2300/EX3400; 15.1X53 versions prior to 15.1X53-D233 on QFX5200/QFX5110; 15.1X53 versions prior to 15.1X53-D471 on NFX; 16.1 versions prior to 16.1R3-S8, 16.1R4-S9, 16.1R5-S3, 16.1R6-S3, 16.1R7; 16.1X65 versions prior to 16.1X65-D47; 16.2 versions prior to 16.2R1-S6, 16.2R2-S5, 16.2R3; 17.1 versions prior to 17.1R2-S3, 17.1R3; 17.2 versions prior to 17.2R1-S3, 17.2R2-S1, 17.2R3; 17.2X75 versions prior to 17.2X75-D70; 13.2 versions above and including 13.2R1. Versions prior to 13.2R1 are not affected. Juniper SIRT is not aware of any malicious exploitation of this vulnerability. No other Juniper Networks products or platforms are affected by this issue.
- CVSS 3.0
- 7.5 HIGHCVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
- EPSS
- 1.34% probability · 71th percentile
- Public exploits
- None in Exploit-DB
- CISA KEV
- Not listed
- Weakness
- CWE-20
- Affected
- juniper/junos
- Source
- sirt@juniper.net
EPSS 1.3% since 27 October 2026; no change recorded yet. Points are recorded when the score first appears and whenever it moves by a percentage point or more.
References
- http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1040788Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
- https://kb.juniper.net/JSA10848Vendor Advisory
- http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1040788Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
- https://kb.juniper.net/JSA10848Vendor Advisory
Source: NVD record, EPSS from FIRST.org, KEV from CISA, exploits from Exploit-DB. Refreshed daily. Download this record as JSON.