CVE-2019-0031

Junos OS: jdhcpd daemon memory consumption Denial of Service when receiving specific IPv6 DHCP packets.

HIGH
7.5
CVSS Score
Published: April 10, 2019 at 08:13 PM UTC
Updated: June 17, 2026 at 02:07 AM UTC
1 product affected across 1 vendorJunos

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Severity
HIGH7.5
Exploit prediction
EPSS 2%

Description

Specific IPv6 DHCP packets received by the jdhcpd daemon will cause a memory resource consumption issue to occur on a Junos OS device using the jdhcpd daemon configured to respond to IPv6 requests. Once started, memory consumption will eventually impact any IPv4 or IPv6 request serviced by the jdhcpd daemon, thus creating a Denial of Service (DoS) condition to clients requesting and not receiving IP addresses. Additionally, some clients which were previously holding IPv6 addresses will not have their IPv6 Identity Association (IA) address and network tables agreed upon by the jdhcpd daemon after the failover event occurs, which leads to more than one interface, and multiple IP addresses, being denied on the client. Affected releases are Juniper Networks Junos OS: 17.4 versions prior to 17.4R2; 18.1 versions prior to 18.1R2.

Affected

Our own answer: ranges merged, affected separated from platform-only, with confidence and review flags.

17.4 ≤ v < 17.4R217.4 ≤ v < 17.4r218.1 ≤ v < 18.1R218.1 ≤ v < 18.1r217.418.1
Affected range stops below 17.4r2, so it looks safe — our inference, not a vendor statement
Affected range stops below 18.1r2, so it looks safe — our inference, not a vendor statement

Remediation

No guide yet

No remediation guidance has been written for this CVE yet. What the record does show:

Patch and advisory references

References (2)

VDB Entryx_refsource_BIDThird Party Advisory
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/107874
x_refsource_CONFIRMVendor Advisory
https://kb.juniper.net/JSA10920

CVSS

Attack Vector
NETWORK
Complexity
LOW
Privileges
NONE
User Interaction
NONE
Scope
UNCHANGED
Confidentiality
NONE
Integrity
NONE
Availability
HIGH
Vector?

Quick Info

StatusMODIFIED
CWE
CWE-400CWE-770

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