Resource exhaustion in Juniper Junos Os Evolved
CVE-2024-47509
An Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling vulnerability in the PFE management daemon (evo-pfemand) of Juniper Networks Junos OS Evolved allows an authenticated, network-based attacker to cause an FPC crash leading to a Denial of Service (DoS).When specific SNMP GET operations or specific low-priviledged CLI commands are executed, a GUID resource leak will occur, eventually leading to exhaustion and resulting in FPCs to hang. Affected FPCs need to be manually restarted to recover. GUID exhaustion will trigger a syslog message like one of the following: evo-pfemand[<pid>]: get_next_guid: Ran out of Guid Space ... evo-aftmand-zx[<pid>]: get_next_guid: Ran out of Guid Space ... The leak can be monitored by running the following command and taking note of the values in the rightmost column labeled Guids: user@host> show platform application-info allocations app evo-pfemand/evo-pfemand In case one or more of these values are constantly increasing the leak is happening. This issue affects Junos OS Evolved: * All versions before 21.4R2-EVO, * 22.1 versions before 22.1R2-EVO. Please note that this issue is similar to, but different from CVE-2024-47505 and CVE-2024-47508.
EPSS: 0.004 (31.8th percentile) — read the EPSS interpretation.
CVSS v3 metric
CVSS v3 base score 6.5 (Medium). Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H.
Affected products
- Juniper Junos_os_evolved — versions 21.4, 22.1
- Juniper Networks Junos Os Evolved — versions 21.4, 22.1
Weakness classification (CWE)
Public proof-of-concept exploits
References
- sirt@juniper.net (Permissions Required, vendor-advisory)
Frequently asked questions
- What is CVE-2024-47509?
- CVE-2024-47509 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Juniper Junos Os Evolved, classified under Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling. CVSS score: 6.5/10. Published 2024-10-11.
- How severe is CVE-2024-47509?
- Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 6.5 out of 10.
- Is CVE-2024-47509 known to be exploited?
- 1 public proof-of-concept repositories are indexed. Not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.