CVE detail

CVE-2020-1678 — CVE-2020-1678

Published 2020-10-16 · Modified 2026-06-17 · Vendor juniper · Product junos · Source nvd
MEDIUM
severity
CVSS-derived band
6.5
CVSS v3
0–10 scale
0.0041
EPSS probability
exploitation probability, 30d
34.0%
EPSS percentile
percentile vs all CVEs
NOT LISTED
CISA KEV
known exploited catalog

Description

On Juniper Networks Junos OS and Junos OS Evolved platforms with EVPN configured, receipt of specific BGP packets causes a slow memory leak. If the memory is exhausted the rpd process might crash. If the issue occurs, the memory leak could be seen by executing the "show task memory detail | match policy | match evpn" command multiple times to check if memory (Alloc Blocks value) is increasing. root@device> show task memory detail | match policy | match evpn ------------------------ Allocator Memory Report ------------------------ Name | Size | Alloc DTXP Size | Alloc Blocks | Alloc Bytes | MaxAlloc Blocks | MaxAlloc Bytes Policy EVPN Params 20 24 3330678 79936272 3330678 79936272 root@device> show task memory detail | match policy | match evpn ------------------------ Allocator Memory Repo

Remediation

vendor remediation guidance

The following software releases have been updated to resolve this specific issue: Junos OS: 19.4R2, 19.4R3, 20.1R1-S4, 20.1R2, 20.2R1 and all subsequent releases. Junos OS Evolved: 20.1R1-S4-EVO, 20.1R2-EVO, 20.2R1-EVO, and all subsequent releases.

workarounds

There are no viable workarounds for this issue.

ProductVulnerable rangeFixed versionAdvisory
Juniper Networks Junos OS>=19.4<19.4R219.4R2advisory ↗
Juniper Networks Junos OS>=20.1<20.1R1-S4, 20.1R220.1R1-S4, 20.1R2advisory ↗
Juniper Networks Junos OS Evolved>=20.1-EVO<20.1R1-S4-EVO, 20.1R2-EVO20.1R1-S4-EVO, 20.1R2-EVOadvisory ↗

References

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