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CVE-2024-39551

An Uncontrolled Resource Consumption vulnerability in the H.323 ALG (Application Layer Gateway) of Juniper Networks Junos OS on SRX Series and MX Series with SPC3 and MS-MPC/MIC, allows an unauthenticated network-based attacker to send specific packets…

HIGH 8.7EPSS 0.48%

Does this matter?

High impact if exploited, but EPSS currently rates exploitation as unlikely (0.48%). Schedule it in the normal patch cycle and watch for a rise in EPSS or a public exploit.

Description

An Uncontrolled Resource Consumption vulnerability in the H.323 ALG (Application Layer Gateway) of  Juniper Networks Junos OS on SRX Series and MX Series with SPC3 and MS-MPC/MIC, allows an unauthenticated network-based attacker to send specific packets causing traffic loss leading to Denial of Service (DoS).  Continued receipt and processing of these specific packets will sustain the Denial of Service condition. The memory usage can be monitored using the below command.   user@host> show usp memory segment sha data objcache jsf  This issue affects SRX Series and MX Series with SPC3 and MS-MPC/MIC:  *  20.4 before 20.4R3-S10,  *  21.2 before 21.2R3-S6,  *  21.3 before 21.3R3-S5,  *  21.4 before 21.4R3-S6,  *  22.1 before 22.1R3-S4,  *  22.2 before 22.2R3-S2,  *  22.3 before 22.3R3-S1,  *  22.4 before 22.4R3,  *  23.2 before 23.2R2.

CVSS 4.0
8.7 HIGHCVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:L/E:X/CR:X/IR:X/AR:X/MAV:X/MAC:X/MAT:X/MPR:X/MUI:X/MVC:X/M
EPSS
0.48% probability · 40th percentile
CISA KEV
Not listed
Weakness
CWE-400
Affected
juniper/junos
Source
sirt@juniper.net

Source: NVD record, EPSS from FIRST.org, KEV from CISA. Refreshed daily.