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.
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History

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First Time appeared Juniper
Juniper junos
Juniper mx10004
Juniper mx10008
Juniper mx2008
Juniper mx2010
Juniper mx2020
Juniper mx204
Juniper mx240
Juniper mx301
Juniper mx304
Juniper mx480
Juniper mx960
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Vendors & Products Juniper
Juniper junos
Juniper mx10004
Juniper mx10008
Juniper mx2008
Juniper mx2010
Juniper mx2020
Juniper mx204
Juniper mx240
Juniper mx301
Juniper mx304
Juniper mx480
Juniper mx960

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Metrics ssvc

{'options': {'Automatable': 'no', 'Exploitation': 'none', 'Technical Impact': 'partial'}, 'version': '2.0.3'}


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First Time appeared Juniper Networks
Juniper Networks junos Os
Vendors & Products Juniper Networks
Juniper Networks junos Os

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Description 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.
Title Junos OS: MX Series: In specific DHCPv6 scenarios jdhcpd memory increases continuously with subscriber logouts
Weaknesses CWE-401
References
Metrics cvssV3_1

{'score': 6.5, 'vector': 'CVSS:3.1/AV:A/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H'}

cvssV4_0

{'score': 8.7, 'vector': 'CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:L/AU:Y/RE:M'}


cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: juniper

Published: 2026-04-09T21:29:45.496Z

Updated: 2026-04-13T18:06:19.824Z

Reserved: 2026-03-23T19:46:13.669Z

Link: CVE-2026-33782

cve-icon Vulnrichment

Updated: 2026-04-13T17:58:39.328Z

cve-icon NVD

Status : Analyzed

Published: 2026-04-09T22:16:27.393

Modified: 2026-04-17T17:39:35.200

Link: CVE-2026-33782

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