CVEvulnerability

CVE-2020-1656

8.8 HIGH Published 2020-10-16 Modified 2026-06-17 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2020-10-16
Last modified
2026-06-17
Assigner
[email protected]
CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
8.8 HIGH — CVSS:3.1/AV:A/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
5.8 MEDIUM — AV:A/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
Weaknesses
CWE-20, CWE-476

Description

The DHCPv6 Relay-Agent service, part of the Juniper Enhanced jdhcpd daemon shipped with Juniper Networks Junos OS has an Improper Input Validation vulnerability which will result in a Denial of Service (DoS) condition when a DHCPv6 client sends a specific DHPCv6 message allowing an attacker to potentially perform a Remote Code Execution (RCE) attack on the target device. Continuous receipt of the specific DHCPv6 client message will result in an extended Denial of Service (DoS) condition. If adjacent devices are also configured to relay DHCP packets, and are not affected by this issue and simply transparently forward unprocessed client DHCPv6 messages, then the attack vector can be a Network-based attack, instead of an Adjacent-device attack. No other DHCP services are affected. Receipt of the packet without configuration of the DHCPv6 Relay-Agent service, will not result in exploitability of this issue. This issue affects Juniper Networks Junos OS: 12.3 versions prior to 12.3R12-S15; 12.3X48 versions prior to 12.3X48-D95; 14.1X53 versions prior to 14.1X53-D53; 15.1 versions prior to 15.1R7-S6; 15.1X49 versions prior to 15.1X49-D200; 15.1X53 versions prior to 15.1X53-D593; 16.1 versions prior to 16.1R7-S7; 16.2 versions prior to 16.2R2-S11; 17.1 versions prior to 17.1R2-S11, 17.1R3-S2; 17.2 versions prior to 17.2R3-S3; 17.2X75 versions prior to 17.2X75-D44; 17.3 versions prior to 17.3R3-S7; 17.4 versions prior to 17.4R2-S9, 17.4R3; 18.1 versions prior to 18.1R3-S9; 18.2 versions prior to 18.2R2-S6, 18.2R3-S2; 18.2X75 versions prior to 18.2X75-D12, 18.2X75-D33, 18.2X75-D435, 18.2X75-D60; 18.3 versions prior to 18.3R1-S7, 18.3R2-S3, 18.3R3-S1; 18.4 versions prior to 18.4R1-S5, 18.4R2-S3, 18.4R3; 19.1 versions prior to 19.1R1-S4, 19.1R2; 19.2 versions prior to 19.2R1-S3, 19.2R2; 19.3 versions prior to 19.3R2.

Affected configurations

• juniper junos 12.3 • juniper junos 12.3x48 • juniper junos 14.1x53 • juniper junos 15.1 • juniper junos 15.1x49 • juniper junos 15.1x53 • juniper junos 16.1 • juniper junos 16.2 • juniper junos 17.1 • juniper junos 17.2 • juniper junos 17.2x75 • juniper junos 17.3 • juniper junos 17.4 • juniper junos 18.1 • juniper junos 18.2 • juniper junos 18.2x75 • juniper junos 18.3 • juniper junos 18.4 • juniper junos 19.1 • juniper junos 19.2 • juniper junos 19.3

Related

Weakness · CWE (2)

  • CWE-20 Improper Input Validation weakness
  • CWE-476 NULL Pointer Dereference weakness

References