Junos OS: MX Series with SPC3 line card: Port flaps causes rtlogd memory leak leading to Denial of Service (Juniper Networks Junos OS)

CVE-2024-39550
HIGH 7.1

At a glance

Source
NVD
EPSS
EPSS 0.33 % · percentile 26 ()
State
PUBLISHED
Published
Updated
Assigner
juniper
NVD status
Modified

Description

A Missing Release of Memory after Effective Lifetime vulnerability in the rtlogd process of Juniper Networks Junos OS on MX Series with SPC3 allows an unauthenticated, adjacent attacker to trigger internal events cause ( which can be done by repeated port flaps) to cause a slow memory leak, ultimately leading to a Denial of Service (DoS). Memory can only be recovered by manually restarting rtlogd process.  The memory usage can be monitored using the below command.     user@host> show system processes extensive | match rtlog  This issue affects Junos OS on MX Series with SPC3 line card:  * from 21.2R3 before 21.2R3-S8,  * from 21.4R2 before 21.4R3-S6,  * from 22.1 before 22.1R3-S5,  * from 22.2 before 22.2R3-S3,  * from 22.3 before 22.3R3-S2,  * from 22.4 before 22.4R3-S1,  * from 23.2 before 23.2R2,  * from 23.4 before 23.4R2.

Weaknesses (CWE)

  • CWE-401 — Missing Release of Memory after Effective Lifetime

References

Scores

VersionScoreVectorScored by
CVSS 3.1MEDIUM 6.5CVSS:3.1/AV:A/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:Hjuniper
CVSS 4.0HIGH 7.1CVSS:4.0/AV:A/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/R:Ujuniper
CVSS 4.0HIGH 7.1CVSS:4.0/AV:A/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:X/CR:X/IR:X/AR:X/MAV:X/MAC:X/MAT:X/MPR:X/MUI:X/MVC:X/MVI:X/MVA:X/MSC:X/MSI:X/MSA:X/S:X/AU:X/R:U/V:X/RE:X/U:XNVD · sirt@juniper.net (Secondary)
CVSS 3.1MEDIUM 6.5CVSS:3.1/AV:A/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:HNVD · sirt@juniper.net (Secondary)

European references

CERT-FR advisories

Affected configurations (NVD CPE)

Affected products

ProductVersions
Juniper Networks · Junos OSaffected 21.2R3 < 21.2R3-S8 ; affected 21.4R2 < 21.4R3-S6 ; affected 22.1 < 22.1R3-S5 ; affected 22.2 < 22.2R3-S3 ; affected 22.3 < 22.3R3-S2 ; affected 22.4 < 22.4R3-S1

Sources

SourceLicence
CVE List (CVEProject cvelistV5)CVE Program Terms of Use
EPSS (FIRST.org)FIRST — attribution requested
ENISA EUVDENISA — reproduction authorised, source acknowledged
CERT-FR (ANSSI)Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0
NVD (NIST) via fkie-cad/nvd-json-data-feedsPublic domain — this product uses data from the NVD API but is not endorsed or certified by the NVD