A denial of service vulnerability in telnetd service on Juniper Networks Junos OS allows remote unauthenticated attackers to cause a denial of service. Affected Junos OS releases are: 12.1X46 prior to 12.1X46-D71; 12.3X48 prior to 12.3X48-D50; 14.1 prior to 14.1R8-S5, 14.1R9; 14.1X53 prior to 14.1X53-D50; 14.2 prior to 14.2R7-S9, 14.2R8; 15.1 prior to 15.1F2-S16, 15.1F5-S7, 15.1F6-S6, 15.1R5-S2, 15.1R6; 15.1X49 prior to 15.1X49-D90; 15.1X53 prior to 15.1X53-D47; 16.1 prior to 16.1R4-S1, 16.1R5; 16.2 prior to 16.2R1-S3, 16.2R2;
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Affected Vendors & Products
Advisories
| Source | ID | Title |
|---|---|---|
EUVD |
EUVD-2017-2268 | A denial of service vulnerability in telnetd service on Juniper Networks Junos OS allows remote unauthenticated attackers to cause a denial of service. Affected Junos OS releases are: 12.1X46 prior to 12.1X46-D71; 12.3X48 prior to 12.3X48-D50; 14.1 prior to 14.1R8-S5, 14.1R9; 14.1X53 prior to 14.1X53-D50; 14.2 prior to 14.2R7-S9, 14.2R8; 15.1 prior to 15.1F2-S16, 15.1F5-S7, 15.1F6-S6, 15.1R5-S2, 15.1R6; 15.1X49 prior to 15.1X49-D90; 15.1X53 prior to 15.1X53-D47; 16.1 prior to 16.1R4-S1, 16.1R5; 16.2 prior to 16.2R1-S3, 16.2R2; |
Fixes
Solution
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Workaround
Disabling the telnet service would completely mitigate this issue. Reducing the maximum number of connections to a value between 1 and 250 would help mitigate this vulnerability. For example: user@junos# set system services telnet connection-limit 100
References
| Link | Providers |
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| https://kb.juniper.net/JSA10817 |
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History
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Status: PUBLISHED
Assigner: juniper
Published:
Updated: 2024-09-16T18:43:34.769Z
Reserved: 2017-06-28T00:00:00
Link: CVE-2017-10621
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Status : Deferred
Published: 2017-10-13T17:29:00.973
Modified: 2025-04-20T01:37:25.860
Link: CVE-2017-10621
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OpenCVE Enrichment
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Weaknesses
EUVD