CVE-2024-21613

Summary

A Missing Release of Memory after Effective Lifetime vulnerability in Routing Protocol Daemon (RPD) of Juniper Networks Junos OS and Junos OS Evolved allows an unauthenticated, adjacent attacker to cause an rpd crash, leading to Denial of Service (DoS).

On all Junos OS and Junos OS Evolved platforms, when traffic engineering is enabled for OSPF or ISIS, and a link flaps, a patroot memory leak is observed. This memory leak, over time, will lead to an rpd crash and restart.

The memory usage can be monitored using the below command.

user@host> show task memory detail | match patroot This issue affects:

Juniper Networks Junos OS

  • All versions earlier than 21.2R3-S3;
  • 21.3 versions earlier than 21.3R3-S5;
  • 21.4 versions earlier than 21.4R3-S3;
  • 22.1 versions earlier than 22.1R3;
  • 22.2 versions earlier than 22.2R3.

Juniper Networks Junos OS Evolved

  • All versions earlier than 21.3R3-S5-EVO;
  • 21.4 versions earlier than 21.4R3-EVO;
  • 22.1 versions earlier than 22.1R3-EVO;
  • 22.2 versions earlier than 22.2R3-EVO.

Affected Software

VendorProductVersion RangeStatus
Juniper NetworksJunos OS0 < 21.2R3-S3affected
Juniper NetworksJunos OS21.3 < 21.3R3-S5affected
Juniper NetworksJunos OS21.4 < 21.4R3-S3affected
Juniper NetworksJunos OS22.1 < 22.1R3affected
Juniper NetworksJunos OS22.2 < 22.2R3affected
Juniper NetworksJunos OS Evolved0 < 21.3R3-S5-EVOaffected
Juniper NetworksJunos OS Evolved21.4 < 21.4R3-EVOaffected
Juniper NetworksJunos OS Evolved22.1 < 22.1R3-EVOaffected
Juniper NetworksJunos OS Evolved22.2 < 22.2R3-EVOaffected

Weaknesses

  • CWE-401: CWE-401 Missing Release of Memory after Effective Lifetime
  • Denial of Service (DoS)

Workarounds

There are no known workarounds for this issue.

ADP Enrichment

CVE Program Container

Additional References

CISA ADP Vulnrichment

  • SSVC:
  • Exploitation: none
    • Automatable: yes
    • Technical Impact: partial

References