CVE-2024-30397

published 2024-04-12

CVE-2024-30397: An Improper Check for Unusual or Exceptional Conditions vulnerability in the the Public Key Infrastructure daemon (pkid) of Juniper Networks Junos OS allows an…

high 8.7 CVSS 4.0

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An Improper Check for Unusual or Exceptional Conditions vulnerability in the the Public Key Infrastructure daemon (pkid) of Juniper Networks Junos OS allows an unauthenticated networked attacker to cause Denial of Service (DoS).

The pkid is responsible for the certificate verification. Upon a failed verification, the pkid uses all CPU resources and becomes unresponsive to future verification attempts. This means that all subsequent VPN negotiations depending on certificate verification will fail.

This CPU utilization of pkid can be checked using this command:
root@srx> show system processes extensive | match pkid
xxxxx root 103 0 846M 136M CPU1 1 569:00 100.00% pkid

This issue affects:
Juniper Networks Junos OS
* All versions prior to 20.4R3-S10;
* 21.2 versions prior to 21.2R3-S7;
* 21.4 versions prior to 21.4R3-S5;
* 22.1 versions prior to 22.1R3-S4;
* 22.2 versions prior to 22.2R3-S3;
* 22.3 versions prior to 22.3R3-S1;
* 22.4 versions prior to 22.4R3;
* 23.2 versions prior to 23.2R1-S2, 23.2R2.

Affected

19 ranges

Vendor	Product	Version range	Fixed in
juniper	junos	< 20.4	20.4
juniper	junos	—	—
juniper	junos	—	—
juniper	junos	—	—
juniper	junos	—	—
juniper	junos	—	—
juniper	junos	—	—
juniper	junos	—	—
juniper	junos	—	—
juniper	junos_os	—	—
juniper	srx_series	—	—
juniper_networks	junos_os	< 20.4R3-S10	20.4R3-S10
juniper_networks	junos_os	>= 21.2 < 21.2R3-S7	21.2R3-S7
juniper_networks	junos_os	>= 21.4 < 21.4R3-S5	21.4R3-S5
juniper_networks	junos_os	>= 22.1 < 22.1R3-S4	22.1R3-S4
juniper_networks	junos_os	>= 22.2 < 22.2R3-S3	22.2R3-S3
juniper_networks	junos_os	>= 22.3 < 22.3R3-S1	22.3R3-S1
juniper_networks	junos_os	>= 22.4 < 22.4R3	22.4R3
juniper_networks	junos_os	>= 23.2 < 23.2R1-S2, 23.2R2	23.2R1-S2, 23.2R2

CWE-754