High severity · published Jan 12, 2024
CVE-2024-21597
An Exposure of Resource to Wrong Sphere vulnerability in the Packet Forwarding Engine (PFE) of Juniper Networks Junos OS on MX Series allows an unauthenticated, network-based…
7.5
CVSS
0.4%
EPSS
No
On KEV
Description
An Exposure of Resource to Wrong Sphere vulnerability in the Packet Forwarding Engine (PFE) of Juniper Networks Junos OS on MX Series allows an unauthenticated, network-based attacker to bypass the intended access restrictions.
In an Abstracted Fabric (AF) scenario if routing-instances (RI) are configured, specific valid traffic destined to the device can bypass the configured lo0 firewall filters as it's received in the wrong RI context.
This issue affects Juniper Networks Junos OS on MX Series:
* All versions earlier than 20.4R3-S9;
* 21.2 versions earlier than 21.2R3-S3;
* 21.4 versions earlier than 21.4R3-S5;
* 22.1 versions earlier than 22.1R3;
* 22.2 versions earlier than 22.2R3;
* 22.3 versions earlier than 22.3R2.
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N
Attack vector
Network
Complexity
Low
Privileges
None
User interaction
None
Confidentiality
None
Integrity
High
Availability
None
Scope
Unchanged
Exploitation
Is it being used?
Exploit prediction (EPSS)0.4% · higher than 31% of CVEs
Exploited in the wildNo evidence yet
CISA KEVNot listed
Ransomware campaign useNot known
Affected products
Which versions
JO
Junos OS · Juniper
20.4; 20.4; 20.4; 20.4; 20.4; 20.4; +34 more · source: NVD
References
NVD
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2024-21597
CVE.org
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2024-21597
Vendor Advisory
https://supportportal.juniper.net/JSA75738
Third Party Advisory
https://www.first.org/cvss/calculator/4.0#CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:L/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N
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