CVE-2017-2315
On Juniper Networks EX Series Ethernet Switches running affected Junos OS versions, a vulnerability in IPv6 processing has been discovered…
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Description
On Juniper Networks EX Series Ethernet Switches running affected Junos OS versions, a vulnerability in IPv6 processing has been discovered that may allow a specially crafted IPv6 Neighbor Discovery (ND) packet destined to an EX Series Ethernet Switch to cause a slow memory leak. A malicious network-based packet flood of these crafted IPv6 NDP packets may eventually lead to resource exhaustion and a denial of service. The affected Junos OS versions are: 12.3 prior to 12.3R12-S4, 12.3R13; 13.3 prior to 13.3R10; 14.1 prior to 14.1R8-S3, 14.1R9; 14.1X53 prior ro 14.1X53-D12, 14.1X53-D40; 14.1X55 prior to 14.1X55-D35; 14.2 prior to 14.2R6-S4, 14.2R7-S6, 14.2R8; 15.1 prior to 15.1R5; 16.1 before 16.1R3; 16.2 before 16.2R1-S3, 16.2R2. 17.1R1 and all subsequent releases have a resolution for this vulnerability.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| NVDNVD · Modified | 3.0 | High7.5 | CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 2.5% · top 15% of all CVEs (4 Nov 2026)
The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: High 7.5.
Weakness
- denial of service vulnerability due to memory leak
- CWE-772 (opens in a new tab)All about CWE-772 and its CVEs
Affected products
Juniper Networks · Junos OS on EX series Ethernet Switches with IPv6 enabled
- affected 12.3 prior to 12.3R12-S4, 12.3R13
- affected 13.3 prior to 13.3R10
- affected 14.1 prior to 14.1R8-S3, 14.1R9
- affected 14.1X53 prior ro 14.1X53-D12, 14.1X53-D40
- affected 14.1X55 prior to 14.1X55-D35
- affected 14.2 prior to 14.2R6-S4, 14.2R7-S6, 14.2R8
- affected 15.1 prior to 15.1R5
- affected 16.1 before 16.1R3
- affected 16.2 before 16.2R1-S3, 16.2R2
- affected 17.1R1 and all subsequent releases have a resolution for this vulnerability
References (3)
- 1038253 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_SECTRACKx_transferred
- 97615 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_BIDx_transferred
- https://kb.juniper.net/JSA10781 (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)
- 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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