CVE-2024-39535 Junos OS Evolved: ACX 7000 Series: When specific traffic is received in a VPLS scenario evo-pfemand crashes
An unauthenticated adjacent attacker can crash the packet forwarding engine in specific VPLS configurations, causing a service outage on Juniper ACX routers.
- Exploited in the wild
- Not known
- Login needed
- Not needed
- Attackable
- Local or same network only
- Victim action needed
- Not needed
- Fix
- None listed
What is CVE-2024-39535?
CVE-2024-39535 is a high-severity denial of service vulnerability in Juniper Junos Os Evolved, published on 11 Jul 2024. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, with no action from the victim.
Official description
An Improper Check for Unusual or Exceptional Conditions vulnerability in the Packet Forwarding Engine (PFE) of Juniper Networks Junos OS Evolved on ACX 7000 Series allows an unauthenticated, adjacent attacker to cause a Denial-of-Service (DoS).
When a device has a Layer 3 or an IRB interface configured in a VPLS instance and specific traffic is received, the evo-pfemand processes crashes which causes a service outage for the respective FPC until the system is recovered manually.
This issue only affects Junos OS Evolved 22.4R2-S1 and 22.4R2-S2 releases and is fixed in 22.4R3. No other releases are affected.
Weakness: CWE-754
Which versions are affected by CVE-2024-39535?
It affects 1 product.
Products include Juniper Junos Os Evolved.
How do I fix CVE-2024-39535?
No fix has been published for CVE-2024-39535 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-2024-39535 being exploited?
There is no known exploitation of CVE-2024-39535 in the wild and no public exploit code.
Other vulnerabilities in Juniper Junos Os Evolved
- CVE-2026-21902 Junos OS Evolved: PTX Series: A vulnerability allows a unauthenticated, network-based attacker to execute code as root
- CVE-2023-28983 Junos OS Evolved: Shell Injection vulnerability in the gNOI server
- CVE-2025-21599 Denial of service in Junos OS Evolved
- CVE-2024-47502 Junos OS Evolved: TCP session state is not always cleared on the Routing Engine leading to DoS
- CVE-2024-39531 Junos OS Evolved: ACX 7000 Series: Protocol specific DDoS configuration affects other protocols
Sources
Also known as GHSA-j93h-6wmf-9mh5.