CVE-2017-10621

Junos OS: Denial of service vulnerability in telnetd

Published Oct 13, 2017 CVSS 3.0 · 5.3 Medium EPSS 1.8% KEV · Not listed
Description
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;

Remediation

Vendor 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

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Advisories

Source ID Title
EUVD 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;
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History

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Status
PUBLISHED
Assigner
juniper
Published
Updated
Sep 16, 2024, 6:43 PM
Reserved
Jun 28, 2017, 12:00 AM
Status
Modified
Published
Oct 13, 2017, 5:29 PM
Modified
Jun 17, 2026, 1:00 AM