CVE-2024-39514: Junos OS and Junos OS Evolved: Receiving specific traffic on devices with EVPN-VPWS with IGMP-snooping enabled will cause the rpd to crash

Severity: medium (CVSS 6.5 v3.1)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 0.2% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2024-07-10 · updated 2026-06-17
Weakness: CWE-703

Description

An Improper Check or Handling of Exceptional Conditions vulnerability in the Routing Protocol Daemon (rpd) of Juniper Networks Junos and Junos OS Evolved allows an unauthenticated, adjacent attacker to cause a Denial of Service (DoS). An attacker can send specific traffic to the device, which causes the rpd to crash and restart. Continued receipt of this traffic will result in a sustained DoS condition. This issue only affects devices with an EVPN-VPWS instance with IGMP-snooping enabled. This issue affects Junos OS: * All versions before 20.4R3-S10, * from 21.4 before 21.4R3-S6, * from 22.1 before 22.1R3-S5, * from 22.2 before 22.2R3-S3, * from 22.3 before 22.3R3-S2, * from 22.4 before 22.4R3, * from 23.2 before 23.2R2; Junos OS Evolved: * All versions before 20.4R3-S10-EVO, * from 21.4-EVO before 21.4R3-S6-EVO, * from 22.1-EVO before 22.1R3-S5-EVO, * from 22.2-EVO before 22.2R3-S3-EVO, * from 22.3-EVO before 22.3R3-S2-EVO, * from 22.4-EVO before 22.4R3-EVO, * from 23.2-EVO before 23.2R2-EVO.

Affected products

Juniper Junos OS: before 20.4; 20.4, 20.4-r1, 20.4-r1-s1, 20.4-r2, 20.4-r2-s1, 20.4-r2-s2 (+65) — fixed in 20.4
Juniper Networks Junos OS Evolved: before 20.4; 20.4, 20.4-r1, 20.4-r1-s1, 20.4-r1-s2, 20.4-r2, 20.4-r2-s1 (+66) — fixed in 20.4

How to fix

Upgrade to a fixed version: Juniper Junos OS 20.4; Juniper Networks Junos OS Evolved 20.4. Check the vendor advisory for mitigations.

References

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