CVE-2024-39557 — Uncontrolled 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
Affected products
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
🔴Vulnerability Details
2📋Vendor Advisories
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CVE-2024-39557: An Uncontrolled Resource Consumption vulnerability in the
Layer 2 Address Learning Daemon (l2ald)
of Juniper Networks Junos OS Evolved allows an u↗2024-07-10