CVE-2024-39538 Junos OS Evolved: ACX7000 Series: When multicast traffic with a specific (S,G) is received evo-pfemand crashes
An unauthenticated adjacent attacker can cause a denial of service by sending specific multicast traffic that crashes the PFE management daemon.
- 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-2024-39538?
CVE-2024-39538 is a high-severity memory corruption 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
A Buffer Copy without Checking Size of Input vulnerability in the PFE management daemon (evo-pfemand) of Juniper Networks Junos OS Evolved on ACX7000 Series allows an unauthenticated, adjacent attacker to cause a
Denial-of-Service (DoS).When multicast traffic with a specific, valid (S,G) is received, evo-pfemand crashes which leads to an outage of the affected FPC until it is manually recovered.
This issue affects Junos OS Evolved on ACX7000 Series:
* All versions before 21.2R3-S8-EVO, * 21.4-EVO versions before 21.4R3-S7-EVO, * 22.2-EVO versions before 22.2R3-S4-EVO, * 22.3-EVO versions before 22.3R3-S3-EVO, * 22.4-EVO versions before 22.4R3-S2-EVO, * 23.2-EVO versions before 23.2R2-EVO, * 23.4-EVO versions before 23.4R1-S2-EVO, 23.4R2-EVO.
Weakness: CWE-120
Which versions are affected by CVE-2024-39538?
It affects 1 product.
Products include Juniper Junos Os Evolved.
How do I fix CVE-2024-39538?
No fix has been published for CVE-2024-39538 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.
Upgrade to the fixed version. Memory-safe languages, compiler hardening and fuzzing prevent most new cases. More about Memory corruption.
Is CVE-2024-39538 being exploited?
There is no known exploitation of CVE-2024-39538 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-m36g-4gr6-38w3.