7.5

CVE-2024-21611

A Missing Release of Memory after Effective Lifetime vulnerability in the Routing Protocol Daemon (rpd) of Juniper Networks Junos OS and Junos OS Evolved allows an unauthenticated, network-based attacker to cause a Denial of Service (DoS).

In a Juniper Flow Monitoring (jflow) scenario route churn that causes BGP next hops to be updated will cause a slow memory leak and eventually a crash and restart of rpd.

Thread level memory utilization for the areas where the leak occurs can be checked using the below command:

user@host> show task memory detail | match so_in
so_in6 28 32 344450 11022400 344760 11032320
so_in 8 16 1841629 29466064 1841734 29467744
This issue affects:

Junos OS



  *  21.4 versions earlier than 21.4R3;
  *  22.1 versions earlier than 22.1R3;
  *  22.2 versions earlier than 22.2R3.




Junos OS Evolved



  *  21.4-EVO versions earlier than 21.4R3-EVO;
  *  22.1-EVO versions earlier than 22.1R3-EVO;
  *  22.2-EVO versions earlier than 22.2R3-EVO.




This issue does not affect:

Juniper Networks Junos OS versions earlier than 21.4R1.

Juniper Networks Junos OS Evolved versions earlier than 21.4R1.



Data is provided by the National Vulnerability Database (NVD)
JuniperJunos Version21.4 Update-
JuniperJunos Version21.4 Updater1
JuniperJunos Version21.4 Updater1-s1
JuniperJunos Version21.4 Updater1-s2
JuniperJunos Version21.4 Updater2
JuniperJunos Version21.4 Updater2-s1
JuniperJunos Version21.4 Updater2-s2
JuniperJunos Version22.1 Update-
JuniperJunos Version22.1 Updater1
JuniperJunos Version22.1 Updater1-s1
JuniperJunos Version22.1 Updater1-s2
JuniperJunos Version22.1 Updater2
JuniperJunos Version22.1 Updater2-s1
JuniperJunos Version22.1 Updater2-s2
JuniperJunos Version22.2 Update-
JuniperJunos Version22.2 Updater1
JuniperJunos Version22.2 Updater1-s1
JuniperJunos Version22.2 Updater1-s2
JuniperJunos Version22.2 Updater2
JuniperJunos Version22.2 Updater2-s1
JuniperJunos Version22.2 Updater2-s2
JuniperJunos Os Evolved Version21.4 Update-
JuniperJunos Os Evolved Version21.4 Updater1
JuniperJunos Os Evolved Version21.4 Updater1-s1
JuniperJunos Os Evolved Version21.4 Updater1-s2
JuniperJunos Os Evolved Version21.4 Updater2
JuniperJunos Os Evolved Version21.4 Updater2-s1
JuniperJunos Os Evolved Version21.4 Updater2-s2
JuniperJunos Os Evolved Version22.1 Update-
JuniperJunos Os Evolved Version22.1 Updater1
JuniperJunos Os Evolved Version22.1 Updater1-s1
JuniperJunos Os Evolved Version22.1 Updater1-s2
JuniperJunos Os Evolved Version22.1 Updater2
JuniperJunos Os Evolved Version22.1 Updater2-s1
JuniperJunos Os Evolved Version22.2 Update-
JuniperJunos Os Evolved Version22.2 Updater1
JuniperJunos Os Evolved Version22.2 Updater1-s1
JuniperJunos Os Evolved Version22.2 Updater2
JuniperJunos Os Evolved Version22.2 Updater2-s1
JuniperJunos Os Evolved Version22.2 Updater2-s2
Zu dieser CVE wurde keine CISA KEV oder CERT.AT-Warnung gefunden.
EPSS Metriken
Type Source Score Percentile
EPSS FIRST.org 0.19% 0.409
CVSS Metriken
Source Base Score Exploit Score Impact Score Vector string
nvd@nist.gov 7.5 3.9 3.6
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
sirt@juniper.net 7.5 3.9 3.6
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
CWE-401 Missing Release of Memory after Effective Lifetime

The product does not sufficiently track and release allocated memory after it has been used, which slowly consumes remaining memory.