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CVE-2024-39551 — Juniper Junos security vulnerability

High CVSS 8.7

An Uncontrolled Resource Consumption vulnerability in the H.323 ALG (Application Layer Gateway) of Juniper Networks Junos OS on SRX Series and MX Series with SPC3 and MS-MPC/MIC, allows an unauthenticated network-based attacker to send specific packets causing traffic loss leading to Denial of Service (DoS). Continued receipt and processing of these specific packets will sustain the Denial of Service condition. The memory usage can be monitored using the below command. user@host> show usp memory segment sha data objcache jsf This issue affects SRX Series and MX Series with SPC3 and MS-MPC/MIC: * 20.4 before 20.4R3-S10, * 21.2 before 21.2R3-S6, * 21.3 before 21.3R3-S5, * 21.4 before 21.4R3-S6, * 22.1 before 22.1R3-S4, * 22.2 before 22.2R3-S2, * 22.3 before 22.3R3-S1, * 22.4 before 22.4R3, * 23.2 before 23.2R2.

Severity
High
CVSS
8.7 (4.0)
Published
2024-07-11
CISA KEV
Not currently listed
Ecosystem
operating-system
Weaknesses
CWE-400

Affected products

  • juniper / junos / 20.4

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Matched remediation archetype

Resource exhaustion and denial of service

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Check exposure

  • Identify attacker-influenced work factors including input size, nesting, compression, fan-out, regex cost, allocation, recursion, retries, and connection lifetime.
  • Map per-request and shared CPU, memory, disk, descriptor, thread, queue, and downstream-service limits.
  • Determine whether authentication, tenancy, quotas, and rate controls apply before expensive processing begins.

Remediate safely

  • Bound input size, nesting, expansion, work, concurrency, queue depth, retries, and execution time before resource-intensive processing.
  • Release resources on every success, error, cancellation, and timeout path and use backpressure instead of unbounded buffering.
  • Update affected components and add small deterministic tests that assert resource ceilings rather than exhausting a host.

Authoritative sources

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