CVE-2024-21611

HIGH

Juniper Junos OS & Evolved < 21.4R3/22.1R3/22.2R3 - BGP Next Hop Update DoS

Title source: llm
STIX 2.1

Description

A Missing Release of Memory after Effective Lifetime vulnerability in the Routing Protocol Daemon (rpd) of Juniper Networks Junos OS and Junos OS Evolved allows an unauthenticated, network-based attacker to cause a Denial of Service (DoS). In a Juniper Flow Monitoring (jflow) scenario route churn that causes BGP next hops to be updated will cause a slow memory leak and eventually a crash and restart of rpd. Thread level memory utilization for the areas where the leak occurs can be checked using the below command: user@host> show task memory detail | match so_in so_in6 28 32 344450 11022400 344760 11032320 so_in 8 16 1841629 29466064 1841734 29467744 This issue affects: Junos OS * 21.4 versions earlier than 21.4R3; * 22.1 versions earlier than 22.1R3; * 22.2 versions earlier than 22.2R3. Junos OS Evolved * 21.4-EVO versions earlier than 21.4R3-EVO; * 22.1-EVO versions earlier than 22.1R3-EVO; * 22.2-EVO versions earlier than 22.2R3-EVO. This issue does not affect: Juniper Networks Junos OS versions earlier than 21.4R1. Juniper Networks Junos OS Evolved versions earlier than 21.4R1.

References (2)

Core 2

Scores

CVSS v3 7.5
EPSS 0.0024
EPSS Percentile 47.4%
Attack Vector NETWORK
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

CISA SSVC

Vulnrichment
Exploitation none
Automatable yes
Technical Impact partial

Details

CWE
CWE-401
Status published
Products (6)
juniper/junos 21.4 (7 CPE variants)
juniper/junos 22.1 (7 CPE variants)
juniper/junos 22.2 (7 CPE variants)
juniper/junos_os_evolved 21.4 (7 CPE variants)
juniper/junos_os_evolved 22.1 (6 CPE variants)
juniper/junos_os_evolved 22.2 (6 CPE variants)
Published Jan 12, 2024
Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026