CVE-2024-39553 Junos OS Evolved: Receipt of arbitrary data when sampling service is enabled, leads to partial Denial of Service (DoS).
Unauthenticated attackers can cause a partial denial of service and unauthorized access by sending arbitrary data when inline jflow is 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-2024-39553?
CVE-2024-39553 is a medium-severity denial of service vulnerability in Juniper Junos Os Evolved, published on 11 Jul 2024. An attacker can exploit it over the internet without logging in, with no action from the victim.
Official description
An Exposure of Resource to Wrong Sphere vulnerability in the sampling service of Juniper Networks Junos OS Evolved allows an unauthenticated network-based attacker to send arbitrary data to the device, which leads msvcsd process to crash with limited availability impacting Denial of Service (DoS) and allows unauthorized network access to the device, potentially impacting system integrity.
This issue only happens when inline jflow is configured.
This does not impact any forwarding traffic. The impacted services MSVCS-DB app crashes momentarily and recovers by itself.
This issue affects Juniper Networks Junos OS Evolved: * 21.4 versions earlier than 21.4R3-S7-EVO; * 22.2 versions earlier than 22.2R3-S3-EVO; * 22.3 versions earlier than 22.3R3-S2-EVO; * 22.4 versions earlier than 22.4R3-EVO; * 23.2 versions earlier than 23.2R1-S2-EVO, 23.2R2-EVO.
Weakness: CWE-668
Which versions are affected by CVE-2024-39553?
It affects 1 product.
Products include Juniper Junos Os Evolved.
How do I fix CVE-2024-39553?
No fix has been published for CVE-2024-39553 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-2024-39553 being exploited?
There is no known exploitation of CVE-2024-39553 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-48wm-jcwq-6m89.