CVE-2017-2301 - CVE House
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Status published High CVE-2017-2301

On Juniper Networks products or platforms running Junos OS 11.4...

Vulnerability Description

On Juniper Networks products or platforms running Junos OS 11.4 prior to 11.4R13-S3, 12.1X46 prior to 12.1X46-D60, 12.3 prior to 12.3R12-S2 or 12.3R13, 12.3X48 prior to 12.3X48-D40, 13.2X51 prior to 13.2X51-D40, 13.3 prior to 13.3R10, 14.1 prior to 14.1R8, 14.1X53 prior to 14.1X53-D12 or 14.1X53-D35, 14.1X55 prior to 14.1X55-D35, 14.2 prior to 14.2R7, 15.1 prior to 15.1F6 or 15.1R3, 15.1X49 prior to 15.1X49-D60, 15.1X53 prior to 15.1X53-D30 and DHCPv6 enabled, when a crafted DHCPv6 packet is received from a subscriber, jdhcpd daemon crashes and restarts. Repeated crashes of the jdhcpd process may constitute an extended denial of service condition for subscribers attempting to obtain IPv6 addresses.

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

No credits recorded in the NVD database.

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Affected Vendor

Juniper Networks

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Affected Software

Junos OS with DHCPv6 enabled
Vulnerable Versions:
11.4 prior to 11.4R13-S3, 12.1X46 prior to 12.1X46-D60, 12.3 prior to 12.3R12-S2 or 12.3R13, 12.3X48 prior to 12.3X48-D40, 13.2X51 prior to 13.2X51-D40, 13.3 prior to 13.3R10, 14.1 prior to 14.1R8, 14.1X53 prior to 14.1X53-D12 or 14.1X53-D35, 14.1X55 prior to 14.1X55-D35, 14.2 prior to 14.2R7, 15.1 prior to 15.1F6 or 15.1R3, 15.1X49 prior to 15.1X49-D60, 15.1X53 prior to 15.1X53-D30, 16.1R1 and all subsequent releases include a fix.

Timeline

Official Publish: May 30th, 2017
Last Modified: August 5th, 2024
Added to House: July 20th, 2026

CVSS Vectors

V3: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/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.