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Fencer Vulns
medium 5.5

CVE-2024-21594 json

Junos OS: SRX 5000 Series: Repeated execution of a specific CLI command causes a flowd crash

published 2024-01-12 2 y ago modified 2026-06-17 4 mo ago also EUVD-2024-19242

cvss
5.5
version 3.1, CNA
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
0.2%
EPSS 0.2% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 6%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

A Heap-based Buffer Overflow vulnerability in the Network Services Daemon (NSD) of Juniper Networks Junos OS allows authenticated, low privileged, local attacker to cause a Denial of Service (DoS).

On an SRX 5000 Series device, when executing a specific command repeatedly, memory is corrupted, which leads to a Flow Processing Daemon (flowd) crash.

The NSD process has to be restarted to restore services.

If this issue occurs, it can be checked with the following command:

user@host> request security policies check The following log message can also be observed:

Error: policies are out of sync for PFE node<number>.fpc<number>.pic<number>. This issue affects:

Juniper Networks Junos OS on SRX 5000 Series

* All versions earlier than 20.4R3-S6; * 21.1 versions earlier than 21.1R3-S5; * 21.2 versions earlier than 21.2R3-S4; * 21.3 versions earlier than 21.3R3-S3; * 21.4 versions earlier than 21.4R3-S3; * 22.1 versions earlier than 22.1R3-S1; * 22.2 versions earlier than 22.2R3; * 22.3 versions earlier than 22.3R2.

Patch / fix

  • Juniper Networks Junos OS 20.4R3-S6, 21.1R3-S5, 21.2R3-S4, 21.3R3-S3, 21.4R3-S3, 22.1R3-S1, 22.2R3, 22.3R2

CISA SSVC

Exploitation
none
Automatable
no
Technical impact
partial
Assessed
18 mo ago

Exploit prediction

0.17% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 6% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-08).

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
CNA 3.1 5.5 CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
NVD 3.1 5.5 CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Affected products

  • Juniper Networks Junos OS

Classification

Weakness

References

Sources

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