CVE-2018-0051
Junos OS: Denial of Service vulnerability in MS-PIC, MS-MIC, MS-MPC, MS-DPC and SRX flow daemon (flowd) related to SIP ALG
- 7.5HighCVSS base score
- 1.6%Exploitation in 30 daysEPSS · top 24% of all CVEs
- NoKnown exploitednot in CISA's KEV catalog
- NonePublic exploitsnone known yet
Description
A Denial of Service vulnerability in the SIP application layer gateway (ALG) component of Junos OS based platforms allows an attacker to crash MS-PIC, MS-MIC, MS-MPC, MS-DPC or SRX flow daemon (flowd) process. This issue affects Junos OS devices with NAT or stateful firewall configuration in combination with the SIP ALG enabled. SIP ALG is enabled by default on SRX Series devices except for SRX-HE devices. SRX-HE devices have SIP ALG disabled by default. The status of ALGs in SRX device can be obtained by executing the command: show security alg status Affected releases are Juniper Networks Junos OS: 12.1X46 versions prior to 12.1X46-D77; 12.3X48 versions prior to 12.3X48-D70; 15.1X49 versions prior to 15.1X49-D140; 15.1 versions prior to 15.1R4-S9, 15.1R7-S1; 15.1F6; 16.1 versions prior to 16.1R4-S9, 16.1R6-S1, 16.1R7; 16.2 versions prior to 16.2R2-S7, 16.2R3; 17.1 versions prior to 17.1R2-S7, 17.1R3; 17.2 versions prior to 17.2R1-S6, 17.2R2-S4, 17.2R3; 17.3 versions prior to 17.3R1-S5, 17.3R2-S2, 17.3R3; 17.4 versions prior to 17.4R2. No other Juniper Networks products or platforms are affected by this issue.
Timeline
ID reserved
By juniper
- 11 months later
· 11 months later
Published
- 6 years later
· 6 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 | High7.5 | CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H |
| NVDNVD · Modified | 3.0 | Medium5.9 | CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 1.6% · top 24% of all CVEs (11 Nov 2026)
The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: High 7.5.
Affected products
- affected 12.1X46 – < 12.1X46-D77
- affected 12.3X48 – < 12.3X48-D70
- affected 15.1X49 – < 15.1X49-D140
- affected 15.1F6
- affected 15.1 – < 15.1R4-S9, 15.1R7-S1
- affected 16.1 – < 16.1R4-S9, 16.1R6-S1, 16.1R7
- affected 16.2 – < 16.2R2-S7, 16.2R3
- affected 17.1 – < 17.1R2-S7, 17.1R3
- affected 17.2 – < 17.2R1-S6, 17.2R2-S4, 17.2R3
- affected 17.3 – < 17.3R1-S5, 17.3R2-S2, 17.3R3
- affected 17.4 – < 17.4R2
What to do
Solution: The following software releases have been updated to resolve these specific issues: 12.1X46-D77, 12.3X48-D70, 12.3X48-D75, 14.1X53-D47, 15.1R4-S9, 15.1R7-S1, 15.1X49-D140, 15.1X53-D471, 15.1X53-D490, 15.1X53-D59, 15.1X53-D67, 16.1R4-S9, 16.1R6-S1, 16.1R7, 16.2R2-S7, 16.2R3, 17.1R2-S7, 17.1R3, 17.2R1-S6, 17.2R2-S4, 17.2R3, 17.3R1-S5, 17.3R2-S2, 17.3R3, 17.4R2, 18.1R1, 18.1X75-D10, 18.2R1, 18.2X75-D5, and all subsequent releases. This fix has also been proactively committed into other releases that might not support SIP ALG configuration.
Workaround: Disable the use of the SIP ALG feature if it is not needed.
Exploitation: Juniper SIRT is not aware of any malicious exploitation of this vulnerability.
References
2
- https://kb.juniper.net/JSA10885 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- 1041852 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_SECTRACKx_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-2018-0875 (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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