CVE-2024-39557Uncontrolled Resource Consumption in Networks Junos OS Evolved

Severity
7.1HIGHNVD
EPSS
0.2%
top 61.04%
CISA KEV
Not in KEV
Exploit
No known exploits
Timeline
PublishedJul 10
Latest updateJul 11

Description

An Uncontrolled Resource Consumption vulnerability in the Layer 2 Address Learning Daemon (l2ald) of Juniper Networks Junos OS Evolved allows an unauthenticated, adjacent attacker to cause a memory leak, eventually exhausting all system memory, leading to a system crash and Denial of Service (DoS). Certain MAC table updates cause a small amount of memory to leak. Once memory utilization reaches its limit, the issue will result in a system crash and restart. To identify the issue, execute the

CVSS vector

CVSS:4.0/AV:A/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:L

Affected Packages2 packages

CVEListV5juniper_networks/junos_os_evolved22.2-EVO22.2R3-S4-EVO+4

🔴Vulnerability Details

2
GHSA
GHSA-g26w-g327-7xm5: An Uncontrolled Resource Consumption vulnerability in the Layer 2 Address Learning Daemon (l2ald) of Juniper Networks Junos OS Evolved allows an una2024-07-11
CVEList
Junos OS Evolved: MAC table changes cause a memory leak2024-07-10

📋Vendor Advisories

1
Juniper
CVE-2024-39557: An Uncontrolled Resource Consumption vulnerability in the Layer 2 Address Learning Daemon (l2ald) of Juniper Networks Junos OS Evolved allows an u2024-07-10
CVE-2024-39557 — Uncontrolled Resource Consumption | cvebase