CVE-2018-0061 — A denial of service vulnerability in the telnetd service on Junos OS allows remo

A denial of service vulnerability in the telnetd service on Junos OS allows remote unauthenticated users to cause high CPU usage which may affect system performance. Affected releases are Juniper Networks Junos OS: 12.1X46 versions prior to 12.1X46-D81 on SRX Series; 12.3 version

01What is this vulnerability?

A denial of service vulnerability in the telnetd service on Junos OS allows remote unauthenticated users to cause high CPU usage which may affect system performance. Affected releases are Juniper Networks Junos OS: 12.1X46 versions prior to 12.1X46-D81 on SRX Series; 12.3 versions prior to 12.3R12-S11; 12.3X48 versions prior to 12.3X48-D80 on SRX Series; 15.1 versions prior to 15.1R7; 15.1X49…

02Affected products

No structured affected-product list available — see references below for vendor advisories.

03Active exploitation status

Not currently listed on the CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog. EPSS is the best forward-looking signal — see the EPSS row above.

04Recommended remediation

• Patch to a fixed version listed in the vendor advisory (see references below).
• Mitigate with WAF rules, network egress filters, or feature flags where the patch is not yet available.
• Hunt historical logs for exploitation indicators — see Detection signatures below.

05Technical details

For the full vendor write-up, exploit chains, and reference implementations, see the references list in section 09.

06Detection signatures

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07Related CVEs

No directly-cited follow-up CVEs in the KB record for this advisory. The references list in section 09 carries the vendor cross-references.

08Timeline

• Published: 2018-10-10 (7y 7m ago)
• Last modified: 2024-11-21

09References

No additional references available in the KB record.