CVE intelligence and bounded remediation

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

High CVSS 7.8

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 J…

Severity
High
CVSS
7.8 (2.0)
Published
2018-04-11
CISA KEV
Not currently listed
Ecosystem
operating-system
Weaknesses
CWE-20

Affected products

  • juniper / junos / 15.1x49

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Matched remediation archetype

Resource exhaustion and denial of service

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Check exposure

  • Identify attacker-influenced work factors including input size, nesting, compression, fan-out, regex cost, allocation, recursion, retries, and connection lifetime.
  • Map per-request and shared CPU, memory, disk, descriptor, thread, queue, and downstream-service limits.
  • Determine whether authentication, tenancy, quotas, and rate controls apply before expensive processing begins.

Remediate safely

  • Bound input size, nesting, expansion, work, concurrency, queue depth, retries, and execution time before resource-intensive processing.
  • Release resources on every success, error, cancellation, and timeout path and use backpressure instead of unbounded buffering.
  • Update affected components and add small deterministic tests that assert resource ceilings rather than exhausting a host.

Authoritative sources

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