CVE-2024-21598 - CVE House
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Status published High CVE-2024-21598

Junos OS and Junos OS Evolved: A malformed BGP tunnel encapsulation attribute will lead to an rpd crash

Vulnerability Description

An Improper Validation of Syntactic Correctness of Input vulnerability in the Routing Protocol Daemon (rpd) of Juniper Networks Junos OS and Junos OS Evolved allows a network-based, unauthenticated attacker to cause a Denial of Service (DoS). If a BGP update is received over an established BGP session which contains a tunnel encapsulation attribute with a specifically malformed TLV, rpd will crash and restart. This issue affects Juniper Networks Junos OS: * 20.4 versions 20.4R1 and later versions earlier than 20.4R3-S9; * 21.2 versions earlier than 21.2R3-S7; * 21.3 versions earlier than 21.3R3-S5; * 21.4 versions earlier than 21.4R3-S5; * 22.1 versions earlier than 22.1R3-S4; * 22.2 versions earlier than 22.2R3-S3; * 22.3 versions earlier than 22.3R3-S1; * 22.4 versions earlier than 22.4R3; * 23.2 versions earlier than 23.2R1-S2, 23.2R2; Junos OS Evolved: * 20.4-EVO versions 20.4R1-EVO and later versions earlier than 20.4R3-S9-EVO; * 21.2-EVO versions earlier than 21.2R3-S7-EVO; * 21.3-EVO versions earlier than 21.3R3-S5-EVO; * 21.4-EVO versions earlier than 21.4R3-S5-EVO; * 22.1-EVO versions earlier than 22.1R3-S4-EVO; * 22.2-EVO versions earlier than 22.2R3-S3-EVO; * 22.3-EVO versions earlier than 22.3R3-S1-EVO; * 22.4-EVO versions earlier than 22.4R3-EVO; * 23.2-EVO versions earlier than 23.2R1-S2-EVO, 23.2R2-EVO; This issue does not affect Juniper Networks * Junos OS versions earlier than 20.4R1; * Junos OS Evolved versions earlier than 20.4R1-EVO. This is a related but separate issue than the one described in JSA79095.

Impact Analysis

Refer to official advisory for detailed impact metrics.

Remediation

Ensure systems are updated to the latest vendor-supplied patch levels.

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Credits & Attribution

The following person or organization is credited with identifying this vulnerability, as recorded in the NVD database:

  • Juniper SIRT would like to acknowledge and thank Matteo Memelli from Amazon for responsibly reporting this vulnerability.

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Affected Vendor

Juniper Networks

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Affected Software

Junos OS, Junos OS Evolved
Vulnerable Versions:
20.4, 21.2, 21.3, 21.4, 22.1, 22.2, 22.3, 22.4, 23.2, 20.4-EVO, 21.2-EVO, 21.3-EVO, 21.4-EVO, 22.1-EVO, 22.2-EVO, 22.3-EVO, 22.4-EVO, 23.2-EVO

Timeline

Official Publish: April 12th, 2024
Last Modified: August 1st, 2024
Added to House: July 22nd, 2026

CVSS Vectors

V3: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Weaknesses (CWE)

CWE-1286

MITRE ATT&CK TTPs

No associated TTPs found for this vulnerability.