CVE-2026-33782 (GCVE-0-2026-33782)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2026-04-09 21:29 – Updated: 2026-04-13 18:06
VLAI?
Title
Junos OS: MX Series: In specific DHCPv6 scenarios jdhcpd memory increases continuously with subscriber logouts
Summary
A Missing Release of Memory after Effective Lifetime vulnerability in the DHCP daemon (jdhcpd) of Juniper Networks Junos OS on MX Series, allows an adjacent, unauthenticated attacker to cause a memory leak, that will eventually cause a complete Denial-of-Service (DoS).
In a DHCPv6 over PPPoE, or DHCPv6 over VLAN with Active lease query or Bulk lease query scenario, every subscriber logout will leak a small amount of memory. When all available memory has been exhausted, jdhcpd will crash and restart which causes a complete service impact until the process has recovered.
The memory usage of jdhcpd can be monitored with:
user@host> show system processes extensive | match jdhcpd
This issue affects Junos OS:
* all versions before 22.4R3-S1,
* 23.2 versions before 23.2R2,
* 23.4 versions before 23.4R2.
Severity ?
CWE
- CWE-401 - Missing Release of Memory after Effective Lifetime
Assigner
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Impacted products
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| Juniper Networks | Junos OS |
Affected:
0 , < 22.4R3-S1
(semver)
Affected: 23.2 , < 23.2R2 (semver) Affected: 23.4 , < 23.4R2 (semver) |
Date Public ?
2026-04-08 16:00
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