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CVE-2024-39549

Junos OS and Junos OS Evolved: Receipt of malformed BGP path attributes leads to a memory leak

Severity Score

8.7
*CVSS v4

Exploit Likelihood

*EPSS

Affected Versions

*CPE

Public Exploits

0
*Multiple Sources

Exploited in Wild

-
*KEV

Decision

Attend
*SSVC
Descriptions

A Missing Release of Memory after Effective Lifetime vulnerability in the routing process daemon (rpd) of Juniper Networks Junos OS and Junos OS Evolved allows an attacker to send a malformed BGP Path attribute update which allocates memory used to log the bad path attribute. This memory is not properly freed in all circumstances, leading to a Denial of Service (DoS).

Consumed memory can be freed by manually restarting Routing Protocol Daemon (rpd).

Memory utilization could be monitored by: 
user@host> show system memory or show system monitor memory status

This issue affects:

Junos OS:  * All versions before 21.2R3-S8, 
* from 21.4 before 21.4R3-S8,

* from 22.2 before 22.2R3-S4, 
* from 22.3 before 22.3R3-S3, 
* from 22.4 before 22.4R3-S3,
* from 23.2 before 23.2R2-S1, 
* from 23.4 before 23.4R1-S2, 23.4R2,
* from 24.2 before 24.2R2-EVO.


Junos OS Evolved:
* All versions before 21.2R3-S8-EVO,
* from 21.4 before 21.4R3-S8-EVO,
* from 22.2 before 22.2R3-S4-EVO,
* from 22.3 before 22.3R3-S3-EVO,
* from 22.4 before 22.4R3-S3-EVO,

* from 23.2 before 23.2R2-S1-EVO,
* from 23.4 before 23.4R1-S2, 23.4R2,
* from 24.2 before 24.2R2-EVO.

*Credits: N/A
CVSS Scores
Attack Vector
Network
Attack Complexity
Low
Attack Requirements
None
Privileges Required
None
User Interaction
None
System
Vulnerable | Subsequent
Confidentiality
None
None
Integrity
None
None
Availability
High
Low
Attack Vector
Network
Attack Complexity
Low
Privileges Required
None
User Interaction
None
Scope
Unchanged
Confidentiality
None
Integrity
None
Availability
High
* Common Vulnerability Scoring System
SSVC
  • Decision:Attend
Exploitation
None
Automatable
Yes
Tech. Impact
Partial
* Organization's Worst-case Scenario
Timeline
  • 2024-06-25 CVE Reserved
  • 2024-07-11 CVE Published
  • 2024-07-12 EPSS Updated
  • 2024-08-02 CVE Updated
  • ---------- Exploited in Wild
  • ---------- KEV Due Date
  • ---------- First Exploit
CWE
  • CWE-401: Missing Release of Memory after Effective Lifetime
CAPEC
References (1)
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