Junos OS Evolved: Specific low privileged CLI commands and SNMP GET requests can trigger a resource leak #1

Summary

An Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling vulnerability in the PFE management daemon (evo-pfemand) of Juniper Networks Junos OS Evolved allows an authenticated, network-based attacker to cause an FPC crash leading to a Denial of Service (DoS).When specific SNMP GET operations or specific low-priviledged CLI commands are executed, a GUID resource leak will occur, eventually leading to exhaustion and resulting in FPCs to hang. Affected FPCs need to be manually restarted to recover. GUID exhaustion will trigger a syslog message like one of the following: evo-pfemand[<pid>]: get_next_guid: Ran out of Guid Space ... evo-aftmand-zx[<pid>]: get_next_guid: Ran out of Guid Space ... The leak can be monitored by running the following command and taking note of the values in the rightmost column labeled Guids: user@host> show platform application-info allocations app evo-pfemand/evo-pfemand In case one or more of these values are constantly increasing the leak is happening. This issue affects Junos OS Evolved: • All versions before 21.4R3-S7-EVO, • 22.1 versions before 22.1R3-S6-EVO, • 22.2 versions before 22.2R3-EVO,  • 22.3 versions before 22.3R3-EVO, • 22.4 versions before 22.4R2-EVO. Please note that this issue is similar to, but different from CVE-2024-47508 and CVE-2024-47509.

Timeline

1. Oct 11, 2024, 3:35 PM UTCCVE published
2. Oct 11, 2024, 5:18 PM UTCCISA SSVC assessment

   Exploitation: none · Automatable: no · Technical impact: partial

3. Oct 11, 2024, 5:18 PM UTCRecord last updated

Affected versions

• Juniper Networks Junos OS Evolved

  From 21.4 · fixed in 21.4R3-S7-EVO; From 22.1 · fixed in 22.1R3-S6-EVO; From 22.2 · fixed in 22.2R3-EVO; From 22.3 · fixed in 22.3R3-EVO; From 22.4 · fixed in 22.4R2-EVO

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