CVE-2024-39516 Denial of service in Junos OS
An unauthenticated attacker can crash the routing daemon via malformed BGP packets, causing denial of service on Junos devices with specific BGP options enabled.
- Exploited in the wild
- Not known
- Login needed
- Not needed
- Attackable
- Over the internet
- Victim action needed
- Not needed
- Fix
- None listed
What is CVE-2024-39516?
CVE-2024-39516 is a high-severity denial of service vulnerability in Juniper Junos, published on 9 Oct 2024. An attacker can exploit it over the internet without logging in, with no action from the victim.
Official description
An Out-of-Bounds Read vulnerability in
the routing protocol daemon (rpd) of
Juniper Networks Junos OS and Junos OS Evolved allows an unauthenticated network-based attacker sending a specifically malformed BGP packet to cause rpd to crash and restart, resulting in a Denial of Service (DoS). Continued receipt and processing of this packet will create a sustained Denial of Service (DoS) condition.
This issue only affects systems configured in either of two ways:
* systems with BGP traceoptions enabled
* systems with BGP traffic engineering configured
This issue can affect iBGP and eBGP with
any address family
configured. The specific attribute involved is non-transitive, and will not propagate across a network.
This issue affects:
Junos OS:
* All versions before 21.4R3-S8, * 22.2 before 22.2R3-S5, * 22.3 before 22.3R3-S4, * 22.4 before 22.4R3-S3, * 23.2 before 23.2R2-S2, * 23.4 before 23.4R2;
Junos OS Evolved:
* All versions before 21.4R3-S8-EVO, * 22.2-EVO before 22.2R3-S5-EVO, * 22.3-EVO before 22.3R3-S4-EVO, * 22.4-EVO before 22.4R3-S3-EVO, * 23.2-EVO before 23.2R2-S2-EVO, * 23.4-EVO before 23.4R2-EVO.
Weakness: CWE-125
Which versions are affected by CVE-2024-39516?
It affects 2 products.
Products include Juniper Junos, Juniper Junos Os Evolved.
How do I fix CVE-2024-39516?
No fix has been published for CVE-2024-39516 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.
Upgrade, then put limits on request size, rate and nesting depth so one client cannot exhaust the service. More about Denial of service.
Is CVE-2024-39516 being exploited?
There is no known exploitation of CVE-2024-39516 in the wild and no public exploit code.
Other vulnerabilities in Juniper Junos
- CVE-2023-36845 Juniper Junos OS EX Series and SRX Series PHP External Variable Modification
- CVE-2020-1631 Juniper Junos OS Path Traversal
- CVE-2025-21590 Juniper Junos OS Improper Isolation or Compartmentalization
- CVE-2023-36851 Juniper Junos OS SRX Series Missing Authentication for Critical Function
- CVE-2023-36844 Juniper Junos OS EX Series PHP External Variable Modification
Sources
Also known as GHSA-qr97-x53q-9m8f.