CVE-2018-0006
Junos OS: bbe-smgd process denial of service while processing VLAN authentication requests/rejects
- 6.5MediumCVSS base score
- 0.67%Exploitation in 30 daysEPSS · top 48% of all CVEs
- NoKnown exploitednot in CISA's KEV catalog
- NonePublic exploitsnone known yet
Description
A high rate of VLAN authentication attempts sent from an adjacent host on the local broadcast domain can trigger high memory utilization by the BBE subscriber management daemon (bbe-smgd), and lead to a denial of service condition. The issue was caused by attempting to process an unbounded number of pending VLAN authentication requests, leading to excessive memory allocation. This issue only affects devices configured for DHCPv4/v6 over AE auto-sensed VLANs, utilized in Broadband Edge (BBE) deployments. Other configurations are unaffected by this issue. Affected releases are Juniper Networks Junos OS: 15.1 versions prior to 15.1R6-S2, 15.1R7; 16.1 versions prior to 16.1R5-S1, 16.1R6; 16.2 versions prior to 16.2R2-S2, 16.2R3; 17.1 versions prior to 17.1R2-S5, 17.1R3; 17.2 versions prior to 17.2R2.
Timeline
ID reserved
By juniper
- 55 days later
· 55 days later
Published
- 7 years later
· 7 years later
Record updated
Changes after publication (a new score, a public exploit, EPSS crossing 1, 10 or 50 %, leaving KEV) are kept since November 2026; earlier ones are not known.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| juniperCNA (assigner) | 3.0 | Medium6.5 | CVSS:3.0/AV:A/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H |
| NVDNVD · Modified | 3.0 | Medium5.3 | CVSS:3.0/AV:A/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 0.67% · top 48% of all CVEs (12 Nov 2026)
The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: Medium 6.5.
Affected products
- affected 15.1 – < 15.1R6-S2, 15.1R7
- affected 16.1 – < 16.1R5-S1, 16.1R6
- affected 16.2 – < 16.2R2-S2, 16.2R3
- affected 17.1 – < 17.1R2-S5, 17.1R3
- affected 17.2 – < 17.2R2
What to do
Solution: The following software releases have been updated to resolve this specific issue: 15.1R6-S2, 15.1R7, 16.1R5-S1, 16.1R6, 16.2R2-S2, 16.2R3, 17.1R2-S5*, 17.1R3*, 17.2R2, 17.3R1, 17.4R1, and all subsequent releases. *pending release
Workaround: Since this issue is specific to auto-sense or dynamic VLANs, utilizing a static VLAN model will mitigate this issue.
Exploitation: Juniper SIRT is not aware of any malicious exploitation of this vulnerability.
References
References2
- 1040184 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_SECTRACKx_transferred
- https://kb.juniper.net/JSA10834 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
Sources
The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.
- CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
- CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
- NVD (opens in a new tab)
- FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
- EUVD EUVD-2018-0831 (opens in a new tab)
- OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
- GitHub Advisories (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
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