Juniper Junos OS/Junos OS Evolved cRPD exceptional condition

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A vulnerability was found in Juniper Junos OS and Junos OS Evolved. It has been classified as critical. The impacted element is an unknown function of the component cRPD. Performing a manipulation results in exceptional condition. This vulnerability is cataloged as CVE-2024-39547. It is possible to initiate the attack remotely. There is no exploit available. Upgrading the affected component is recommended.

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A vulnerability classified as critical has been found in Juniper Junos OS and Junos OS Evolved (unknown version). This affects an unknown code block of the component cRPD. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a exceptional condition vulnerability. CWE is classifying the issue as CWE-755. The product does not handle or incorrectly handles an exceptional condition. This is going to have an impact on availability. The summary by CVE is:

An Improper Handling of Exceptional Conditions vulnerability in the rpd-server of Juniper Networks Junos OS and Junos OS Evolved within cRPD allows an unauthenticated network-based attacker sending crafted TCP traffic to the routing engine (RE) to cause a CPU-based Denial of Service (DoS). If specially crafted TCP traffic is received by the control plane, or a TCP session terminates unexpectedly, it will cause increased control plane CPU utilization by the rpd-server process. While not explicitly required, the impact is more severe when RIB sharding is enabled. Task accounting shows unexpected reads by the RPD Server jobs for shards: user@junos> show task accounting detail ... read:RPD Server.0.0.0.0+780.192.168.0.78+48886 TOT:00000003.00379787 MAX:00000000.00080516 RUNS: 233888\ read:RPD Server.0.0.0.0+780.192.168.0.78+49144 TOT:00000004.00007565 MAX:00000000.00080360 RUNS: 233888\ read:RPD Server.0.0.0.0+780.192.168.0.78+49694 TOT:00000003.00600584 MAX:00000000.00080463 RUNS: 233888\ read:RPD Server.0.0.0.0+780.192.168.0.78+50246 TOT:00000004.00346998 MAX:00000000.00080338 RUNS: 233888\ This issue affects: Junos OS with cRPD:  * All versions before 21.2R3-S8,  * 21.4 before 21.4R3-S7,  * 22.1 before 22.1R3-S6,  * 22.2 before 22.2R3-S4,  * 22.3 before 22.3R3-S3,  * 22.4 before 22.4R3-S2,  * 23.2 before 23.2R2-S2,  * 24.2 before 24.2R2;  Junos OS Evolved with cRPD:  * All versions before 21.4R3-S7-EVO,  * 22.2 before 22.2R3-S4-EVO,  * 22.3 before 22.3R3-S3-EVO,  * 22.4 before 22.4R3-S2-EVO,  * 23.2 before 23.2R2-EVO.

The advisory is shared at supportportal.juniper.net. This vulnerability is uniquely identified as CVE-2024-39547 since 06/25/2024. The exploitability is told to be difficult. It is possible to initiate the attack remotely. No form of authentication is needed for exploitation. Neither technical details nor an exploit are publicly available. The price for an exploit might be around USD $0-$5k at the moment (estimation calculated on 01/26/2026).

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• Router Operating System

Vendor

• Juniper

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• Junos OS
• Junos OS Evolved

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• commercial

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• Vendor: https://www.juniper.net/

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