CVE-2024-21600
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v2025.03.14There is a 0.1% chance that this vulnerability will be exploited in the wild within the next 30 days.
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Description
An Improper Neutralization of Equivalent Special Elements vulnerability in the Packet Forwarding Engine (PFE) of Juniper Networks Junos OS on PTX Series allows a unauthenticated, adjacent attacker to cause a Denial of Service (DoS).
When MPLS packets are meant to be sent to a flexible tunnel interface (FTI) and if the FTI tunnel is down, these will hit the reject NH, due to which the packets get sent to the CPU and cause a host path wedge condition. This will cause the FPC to hang and requires a manual restart to recover.
Please note that this issue specifically affects PTX1000, PTX3000, PTX5000 with FPC3, PTX10002-60C, and PTX10008/16 with LC110x. Other PTX Series devices and Line Cards (LC) are not affected.
The following log message can be seen when the issue occurs:
Cmerror Op Set: Host Loopback: HOST LOOPBACK WEDGE DETECTED IN PATH ID <id> (URI: /fpc/<fpc>/pfe/<pfe>/cm/<cm>/Host_Loopback/<cm>/HOST_LOOPBACK_MAKE_CMERROR_ID[<id>])
This issue affects Juniper Networks Junos OS:
* All versions earlier than 20.4R3-S8;
* 21.1 versions earlier than 21.1R3-S4;
* 21.2 versions earlier than 21.2R3-S6;
* 21.3 versions earlier than 21.3R3-S3;
* 21.4 versions earlier than 21.4R3-S5;
* 22.1 versions earlier than 22.1R2-S2, 22.1R3;
* 22.2 versions earlier than 22.2R2-S1, 22.2R3.
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CVSS Vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:A/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
References
Advisory provided by GitHub Security Advisory Database. Published: January 12, 2024, Modified: January 12, 2024