Medium severity · published Jul 11, 2024
CVE-2024-39538
A Buffer Copy without Checking Size of Input vulnerability in the PFE management daemon (evo-pfemand) of Juniper Networks Junos OS Evolved on ACX7000 Series allows an…
6.5
CVSS
0.3%
EPSS
No
On KEV
Description
A Buffer Copy without Checking Size of Input vulnerability in the PFE management daemon (evo-pfemand) of Juniper Networks Junos OS Evolved on ACX7000 Series allows an unauthenticated, adjacent attacker to cause a
Denial-of-Service (DoS).When multicast traffic with a specific, valid (S,G) is received, evo-pfemand crashes which leads to an outage of the affected FPC until it is manually recovered.
This issue affects Junos OS Evolved on ACX7000 Series:
* All versions before 21.2R3-S8-EVO,
* 21.4-EVO versions before 21.4R3-S7-EVO,
* 22.2-EVO versions before 22.2R3-S4-EVO,
* 22.3-EVO versions before 22.3R3-S3-EVO,
* 22.4-EVO versions before 22.4R3-S2-EVO,
* 23.2-EVO versions before 23.2R2-EVO,
* 23.4-EVO versions before 23.4R1-S2-EVO, 23.4R2-EVO.
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:A/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Attack vector
Adjacent
Complexity
Low
Privileges
None
User interaction
None
Confidentiality
None
Integrity
None
Availability
High
Scope
Unchanged
Exploitation
Is it being used?
Exploit prediction (EPSS)0.3% · higher than 26% of CVEs
Exploited in the wildNo evidence yet
CISA KEVNot listed
Ransomware campaign useNot known
Affected products
Which versions
JO
Junos OS Evolved · Juniper
before 21.2; 21.2; 21.2; 21.2; 21.2; 21.2; +34 more · source: NVD
References
NVD
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2024-39538
CVE.org
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2024-39538
Vendor Advisory
https://supportportal.juniper.net/JSA82998
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