Junos Evolved evo-pfemand FPC DoS via GUID Exhaustion (pre-21.2R3)
CVE-2024-47508 Published on October 11, 2024
Junos OS Evolved: Specific low privileged CLI commands and SNMP GET requests can trigger a resource leak #2
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 21.2R3-S8-EVO,
* 21.3 versions before 21.3R3-EVO;
* 21.4 versions before 22.1R2-EVO,
* 22.1 versions before 22.1R1-S1-EVO, 22.1R2-EVO.
Please note that this issue is similar to, but different from CVE-2024-47505 and CVE-2024-47509.
Vulnerability Analysis
CVE-2024-47508 is exploitable with network access, and requires small amount of user privileges. This vulnerability is considered to have a low attack complexity. The potential impact of an exploit of this vulnerability is considered to have no impact on confidentiality and integrity, and a high impact on availability.
Weakness Type
Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling
The software allocates a reusable resource or group of resources on behalf of an actor without imposing any restrictions on the size or number of resources that can be allocated, in violation of the intended security policy for that actor.
Products Associated with CVE-2024-47508
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Affected Versions
Juniper Networks Junos OS Evolved:- Version 21.2 and below 21.2R3-S8-EVO is affected.
- Version 21.3 and below 21.3R3-EVO is affected.
- Version 21.4 and below 21.4R2-EVO, is affected.
- Version 22.1 and below 22.1R1-S1-EVO, 22.1R2-EVO is affected.
Exploit Probability
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