CVE-2024-39547: high-severity vulnerability in Juniper Networks Junos OS
Junos OS and Junos OS Evolved: cRPD: Receipt of crafted TCP traffic can trigger high CPU utilization
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21Vexday Risk Score
No sign of exploitation. No public exploitation artifact known so far.
ssvc Trackcvss 8.7epss 1.0%
An Improper Handling of Exceptional Conditions vulnerability in the rpd-server of Juniper Networks Junos OS and Junos OS Evolved within cRPD allows an unauthenticated network-based attacker sending crafted TCP traffic to the routing engine (RE) to cause a CPU-based Denial of Service (DoS).
If specially crafted TCP traffic is received by the control plane, or a TCP session terminates unexpectedly, it will cause increased control plane CPU utilization by the rpd-server process.
While not explicitly required, the impact is more severe when RIB sharding is enabled.
Task accounting shows unexpected reads by the RPD Server jobs for shards:
user@junos> show task accounting detail
...
read:RPD Server.0.0.0.0+780.192.168.0.78+48886 TOT:00000003.00379787 MAX:00000000.00080516 RUNS: 233888\
read:RPD Server.0.0.0.0+780.192.168.0.78+49144 TOT:00000004.00007565 MAX:00000000.00080360 RUNS: 233888\
read:RPD Server.0.0.0.0+780.192.168.0.78+49694 TOT:00000003.00600584 MAX:00000000.00080463 RUNS: 233888\
read:RPD Server.0.0.0.0+780.192.168.0.78+50246 TOT:00000004.00346998 MAX:00000000.00080338 RUNS: 233888\
This issue affects:
Junos OS with cRPD:
* All versions before 21.2R3-S8,
* 21.4 before 21.4R3-S7,
* 22.1 before 22.1R3-S6,
* 22.2 before 22.2R3-S4,
* 22.3 before 22.3R3-S3,
* 22.4 before 22.4R3-S2,
* 23.2 before 23.2R2-S2,
* 24.2 before 24.2R2;
Junos OS Evolved with cRPD:
* All versions before 21.4R3-S7-EVO,
* 22.2 before 22.2R3-S4-EVO,
* 22.3 before 22.3R3-S3-EVO,
* 22.4 before 22.4R3-S2-EVO,
* 23.2 before 23.2R2-EVO.
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/R:U
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