CVE-2024-39540

published 2024-07-11

CVE-2024-39540: An Improper Check for Unusual or Exceptional Conditions vulnerability in the Packet Forwarding Engine (pfe) of Juniper Networks Junos OS on SRX Series, and MX…

high 8.7 CVSS 4.0

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An Improper Check for Unusual or Exceptional Conditions vulnerability in the Packet Forwarding Engine (pfe) of Juniper Networks Junos OS on SRX Series, and MX Series with SPC3 allows an unauthenticated, network-based attacker to cause a Denial-of-Service (DoS).

When an affected device receives specific valid TCP traffic, the pfe crashes and restarts leading to a momentary but complete service outage.

This issue affects Junos OS:

21.2 releases from 21.2R3-S5 before 21.2R3-S6.

This issue does not affect earlier or later releases.

Affected

5 ranges

Vendor	Product	Version range	Fixed in
juniper	junos	—	—
juniper	junos_os	—	—
juniper	mx_series	—	—
juniper	srx_series	—	—
juniper_networks	junos_os	>= 21.2R3-S5 < 21.2R3-S6	21.2R3-S6

CWE-754