vulnerability
Juniper Junos OS: 2024-04 Security Bulletin: Junos OS and Junos OS Evolved: A malformed BGP tunnel encapsulation attribute will lead to an rpd crash (JSA75739) (CVE-2024-21598)
| Severity | CVSS | Published | Added | Modified |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 8 | (AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C) | Apr 10, 2024 | Apr 11, 2024 | Mar 27, 2026 |
Description
An Improper Validation of Syntactic Correctness of Input vulnerability in the Routing Protocol Daemon (rpd) of Juniper Networks Junos OS and Junos OS Evolved allows a network-based, unauthenticated attacker to cause a Denial of Service (DoS).
If a BGP update is received over an established BGP session which contains a tunnel encapsulation attribute with a specifically malformed TLV, rpd will crash and restart.
This issue affects Juniper Networks
Junos OS:
* 20.4 versions 20.4R1 and later versions earlier than 20.4R3-S9;
* 21.2 versions earlier than 21.2R3-S7;
* 21.3 versions earlier than 21.3R3-S5;
* 21.4 versions earlier than 21.4R3-S5;
* 22.1 versions earlier than 22.1R3-S4;
* 22.2 versions earlier than 22.2R3-S3;
* 22.3 versions earlier than 22.3R3-S1;
* 22.4 versions earlier than 22.4R3;
* 23.2 versions earlier than 23.2R1-S2, 23.2R2;
Junos OS Evolved:
* 20.4-EVO versions 20.4R1-EVO and later versions earlier than 20.4R3-S9-EVO;
* 21.2-EVO versions earlier than 21.2R3-S7-EVO;
* 21.3-EVO versions earlier than 21.3R3-S5-EVO;
* 21.4-EVO versions earlier than 21.4R3-S5-EVO;
* 22.1-EVO versions earlier than 22.1R3-S4-EVO;
* 22.2-EVO versions earlier than 22.2R3-S3-EVO;
* 22.3-EVO versions earlier than 22.3R3-S1-EVO;
* 22.4-EVO versions earlier than 22.4R3-EVO;
* 23.2-EVO versions earlier than 23.2R1-S2-EVO, 23.2R2-EVO;
This issue does not affect Juniper Networks
* Junos OS versions earlier than 20.4R1;
* Junos OS Evolved versions earlier than 20.4R1-EVO.
This is a related but separate issue than the one described in JSA79095.
Solution
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