CVE-2024-39547 Junos OS and Junos OS Evolved: cRPD: Receipt of crafted TCP traffic can trigger high CPU utilization
Unauthenticated attackers can cause high CPU utilization and denial of service in Junos OS by sending crafted TCP traffic to the routing engine.
- 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-2024-39547?
CVE-2024-39547 is a high-severity denial of service vulnerability in Juniper Networks Junos OS, published on 11 Oct 2024. An attacker can exploit it over the internet without logging in, with no action from the victim.
Official description
An Improper Handling of Exceptional Conditions vulnerability in the rpd-server of Juniper Networks Junos OS and Junos OS Evolved within cRPD allows an unauthenticated network-based attacker sending crafted TCP traffic to the routing engine (RE) to cause a CPU-based Denial of Service (DoS).
If specially crafted TCP traffic is received by the control plane, or a TCP session terminates unexpectedly, it will cause increased control plane CPU utilization by the rpd-server process.
While not explicitly required, the impact is more severe when RIB sharding is enabled.
Task accounting shows unexpected reads by the RPD Server jobs for shards:
user@junos> show task accounting detail ... read:RPD Server.0.0.0.0+780.192.168.0.78+48886 TOT:00000003.00379787 MAX:00000000.00080516 RUNS: 233888\ read:RPD Server.0.0.0.0+780.192.168.0.78+49144 TOT:00000004.00007565 MAX:00000000.00080360 RUNS: 233888\ read:RPD Server.0.0.0.0+780.192.168.0.78+49694 TOT:00000003.00600584 MAX:00000000.00080463 RUNS: 233888\ read:RPD Server.0.0.0.0+780.192.168.0.78+50246 TOT:00000004.00346998 MAX:00000000.00080338 RUNS: 233888\
This issue affects:
Junos OS with cRPD:
* All versions before 21.2R3-S8, * 21.4 before 21.4R3-S7, * 22.1 before 22.1R3-S6, * 22.2 before 22.2R3-S4, * 22.3 before 22.3R3-S3, * 22.4 before 22.4R3-S2, * 23.2 before 23.2R2-S2, * 24.2 before 24.2R2;
Junos OS Evolved with cRPD:
* All versions before 21.4R3-S7-EVO, * 22.2 before 22.2R3-S4-EVO, * 22.3 before 22.3R3-S3-EVO, * 22.4 before 22.4R3-S2-EVO, * 23.2 before 23.2R2-EVO.
Weakness: CWE-755
Which versions are affected by CVE-2024-39547?
It affects 1 product.
Products include Juniper Junos Containerized Routing Protocol Daemon.
How do I fix CVE-2024-39547?
No fix has been published for CVE-2024-39547 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-2024-39547 being exploited?
There is no known exploitation of CVE-2024-39547 in the wild and no public exploit code.
Sources
Also known as GHSA-37f4-v37x-33qj.