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CVE-2024-39548

Severity CVSS v4.0:
HIGH
Type:
CWE-400 Uncontrolled Resource Consumption ('Resource Exhaustion')
Publication date:
11/07/2024
Last modified:
23/01/2026

Description

An Uncontrolled Resource Consumption vulnerability in the aftmand process of Juniper Networks Junos OS Evolved allows an unauthenticated, network-based attacker to consume memory resources, resulting in a Denial of Service (DoS) condition. The processes do not recover on their own and must be manually restarted.<br /> <br /> This issue affects both IPv4 and IPv6. <br /> <br /> Changes in memory usage can be monitored using the following CLI command:<br /> user@device&gt; show system memory node | grep evo-aftmann<br /> This issue affects Junos OS Evolved: <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> * All versions before 21.2R3-S8-EVO, <br /> * 21.3 versions before 21.3R3-S5-EVO, <br /> * 21.4 versions before 21.4R3-S5-EVO, <br /> * 22.1 versions before 22.1R3-S4-EVO, <br /> * 22.2 versions before 22.2R3-S4-EVO,<br /> * 22.3 versions before 22.3R3-S3-EVO,<br /> * 22.4 versions before 22.4R2-S2-EVO, 22.4R3-EVO, <br /> * 23.2 versions before 23.2R1-S1-EVO, 23.2R2-EVO.

Impact

Vector 4.0
CVSS:4.0/AV:A/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:L/R:U CVSS v4.0 Severity and Metrics:

Base Score: 7.10 HIGH
Vector: CVSS:4.0/AV:A/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:L/R:U

Attack Vector (AV): Adjacent
Attack Complexity (AC): Low
Attack Requirements (AT): None
Privileges Required (PR): None
User Interaction (UI): None
Confidentiality (VC): None
Integrity (VI): None
Availability (VA): High
Confidentiality (SC): None
Integrity (SI): None
Availability (SA): Low
Recovery (R): User

Base Score 4.0
7.10
Severity 4.0
HIGH
Vector 3.x
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H CVSS v3.1 Severity and Metrics:

Base Score: 7.50 HIGH
Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Attack Vector (AV): Network
Attack Complexity (AC): Low
Privileges Required (PR): None
User Interaction (UI): None
Scope (S): Unchanged
Confidentiality (C): None
Integrity (I): None
Availability (A): High

Base Score 3.x
7.50
Severity 3.x
HIGH

Vulnerable products and versions

CPE From Up to
cpe:2.3:o:juniper:junos_os_evolved:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* 21.2 (excluding)
cpe:2.3:o:juniper:junos_os_evolved:21.2:-:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:o:juniper:junos_os_evolved:21.2:r1:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:o:juniper:junos_os_evolved:21.2:r1-s1:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:o:juniper:junos_os_evolved:21.2:r1-s2:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:o:juniper:junos_os_evolved:21.2:r2:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:o:juniper:junos_os_evolved:21.2:r2-s1:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:o:juniper:junos_os_evolved:21.2:r2-s2:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:o:juniper:junos_os_evolved:21.2:r3:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:o:juniper:junos_os_evolved:21.2:r3-s1:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:o:juniper:junos_os_evolved:21.2:r3-s2:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:o:juniper:junos_os_evolved:21.2:r3-s3:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:o:juniper:junos_os_evolved:21.2:r3-s4:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:o:juniper:junos_os_evolved:21.2:r3-s5:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:o:juniper:junos_os_evolved:21.2:r3-s6:*:*:*:*:*:*

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