CVE intelligence and bounded remediation

CVE-2024-47504 — Juniper Junos security vulnerability

High CVSS 8.7

An Improper Validation of Specified Type of Input vulnerability in the packet forwarding engine (pfe) Juniper Networks Junos OS on SRX5000 Series allows an unauthenticated, network based attacker to cause a Denial of Service (Dos). When a non-clustered SRX5000 device receives a specifically malformed packet this will cause a flowd crash and restart. This issue affects Junos OS: * 22.1 releases 22.1R1 and later before 22.2R3-S5, * 22.3 releases before 22.3R3-S4, * 22.4 releases before 22.4R3-S4, * 23.2 releases before 23.2R2-S2, * 23.4 releases before 23.4R2-S1, * 24.2 releases before 24.2R1-S1, 24.2R2. Please note that the PR does indicate that earlier versions have been fixed as well, but these won't be adversely impacted by this.

Severity
High
CVSS
8.7 (4.0)
Published
2024-10-11
CISA KEV
Not currently listed
Ecosystem
operating-system
Weaknesses
CWE-1287

Affected products

  • juniper / junos / 22.1
  • juniper / junos / 22.3

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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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