CVE-2017-10618 - CVE House

Status published Medium CVE-2017-10618

Junos: RPD core due to BGP UPDATE with malformed optional transitive attributes

5.9 CVSS

Vulnerability Description

When the 'bgp-error-tolerance' feature â" designed to help mitigate remote session resets from malformed path attributes â" is enabled, a BGP UPDATE containing a specifically crafted set of transitive attributes can cause the RPD routing process to crash and restart. Devices with BGP enabled that do not have 'bgp-error-tolerance' configured are not vulnerable to this issue. Affected releases are Juniper Networks Junos OS 13.3 prior to 13.3R10-S2; 14.1 prior to 14.1R8-S4, 14.1R9; 14.1X50 prior to 14.1X50-D185; 14.1X53 prior to 14.1X53-D45, 14.1X53-D50; 14.2 prior to 14.2R7-S7, 14.2R8; 15.1 prior to 15.1F5-S8, 15.1F6-S7, 15.1R5-S6, 15.1R6-S2, 15.1R7; 15.1X49 prior to 15.1X49-D100; 15.1X53 prior to 15.1X53-D64, 15.1X53-D70; 16.1 prior to 16.1R3-S4, 16.1R4-S3, 16.1R5; 16.2 prior to 16.2R1-S5, 16.2R2; 17.1 prior to 17.1R1-S3, 17.1R2; 17.2 prior to 17.2R1-S2, 17.2R2; 17.2X75 prior to 17.2X75-D50. No other Juniper Networks products or platforms are affected by this issue.

Impact Analysis

Refer to official advisory for detailed impact metrics.

Remediation

Ensure systems are updated to the latest vendor-supplied patch levels.

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Credits & Attribution

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Affected Vendor

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Affected Software

Junos OS

Vulnerable Versions:

13.3 prior to 13.3R10-S2, 14.1 prior to 14.1R8-S4, 14.1R9, 14.1X50 prior to 14.1X50-D185, 14.1X53 prior to 14.1X53-D45, 14.1X53-D50, 14.2 prior to 14.2R7-S7, 14.2R8, 15.1 prior to 15.1F5-S8, 15.1F6-S7, 15.1R5-S6, 15.1R6-S2, 15.1R7, 15.1X49 prior to 15.1X49-D100, 15.1X53 prior to 15.1X53-D64, 15.1X53-D70, 16.1 prior to 16.1R3-S4, 16.1R4-S3, 16.1R5, 16.2 prior to 16.2R1-S5, 16.2R2, 17.1 prior to 17.1R1-S3, 17.1R2, 17.2 prior to 17.2R1-S2, 17.2R2, 17.2X75 prior to 17.2X75-D50

Timeline

Official Publish: October 13th, 2017

Last Modified: September 17th, 2024

Added to House: July 20th, 2026

CVSS Vectors

V3: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Weaknesses (CWE)

No CWE data available

MITRE ATT&CK TTPs

No associated TTPs found for this vulnerability.