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UK Cyber Defence
VulnerabilityModified

CVE-2018-0050

An error handling vulnerability in Routing Protocols Daemon (RPD) of Juniper Networks Junos OS allows an attacker to cause RPD to crash.

MEDIUM 5.9EPSS 2.30%

Does this matter?

Lower severity and a low EPSS score (2.30%). Track it; it rarely justifies an emergency change on its own.

Description

An error handling vulnerability in Routing Protocols Daemon (RPD) of Juniper Networks Junos OS allows an attacker to cause RPD to crash. Continued receipt of this malformed MPLS RSVP packet will cause a sustained Denial of Service condition. Affected releases are Juniper Networks Junos OS: 14.1 versions prior to 14.1R8-S5, 14.1R9; 14.1X53 versions prior to 14.1X53-D48 on QFX Switching; 14.2 versions prior to 14.1X53-D130 on QFabric System; 14.2 versions prior to 14.2R4. This issue does not affect versions of Junos OS before 14.1R1. Junos OS RSVP only supports IPv4. IPv6 is not affected by this issue. This issue require it to be received on an interface configured to receive this type of traffic.

CVSS 3.0
5.9 MEDIUMCVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
EPSS
2.30% probability · 83th percentile
Public exploits
None in Exploit-DB
CISA KEV
Not listed
Weakness
CWE-20
Affected
juniper/junos
Source
sirt@juniper.net
EPSS trend
0%3%5%27 October 2026: 2.30%27 October 202627 October 2026

EPSS 2.3% 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

Source: NVD record, EPSS from FIRST.org, KEV from CISA, exploits from Exploit-DB. Refreshed daily. Download this record as JSON.