CVE-2016-1270

Severity: high (CVSS 7.5 v3.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 1.3% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2016-04-15 · updated 2026-06-17
Weakness: CWE-19

Description

The rpd daemon in Juniper Junos OS before 12.1X44-D60, 12.1X46 before 12.1X46-D45, 12.1X47 before 12.1X47-D30, 12.3 before 12.3R9, 12.3X48 before 12.3X48-D20, 13.2 before 13.2R7, 13.2X51 before 13.2X51-D40, 13.3 before 13.3R6, 14.1 before 14.1R4, and 14.2 before 14.2R2, when configured with BGP-based L2VPN or VPLS, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (daemon restart) via a crafted L2VPN family BGP update.

Affected products

Juniper Junos OS: through 12.1x44; 12.1x46, 12.1x46-d10, 12.1x46-d15, 12.1x46-d20, 12.1x46-d25, 12.1x46-d30 (+44)

References

http://kb.juniper.net/InfoCenter/index?page=content&id=JSA10737
http://kb.juniper.net/InfoCenter/index?page=content&id=JSA10737

Get alerted when CVE-2016-1270 or the next vulnerability affects your stack