CVE-2024-47489Junos OS Evolved: ACX Series: Receipt of specific transit protocol packets is incorrectly processed by the RE
- 6.9MediumCVSS base score
- 0.66%Exploitation in 30 daysEPSS · top 48% of all CVEs
- NoKnown exploitednot in CISA's KEV catalog
- NonePublic exploitsnone known yet
Description
An Improper Handling of Exceptional Conditions vulnerability in the Packet Forwarding Engine (pfe) of the Juniper Networks Junos OS Evolved on ACX Series devices allows an unauthenticated, network based attacker sending specific transit protocol traffic to cause a partial Denial of Service (DoS) to downstream devices. Receipt of specific transit protocol packets is incorrectly processed by the Routing Engine (RE), filling up the DDoS protection queue which is shared between routing protocols. This influx of transit protocol packets causes DDoS protection violations, resulting in protocol flaps which can affect connectivity to networking devices. This issue affects both IPv4 and IPv6. This issue does not require any specific routing protocol to be configured or enabled. The following commands can be used to monitor the DDoS protection queue: labuser@re0> show evo-pfemand host pkt-stats labuser@re0> show host-path ddos all-policers This issue affects Junos OS Evolved: * All versions before 21.4R3-S8-EVO, * from 22.2 before 22.2R3-S4-EVO, * from 22.3 before 22.3R3-S4-EVO, * from 22.4 before 22.4R3-S3-EVO, * from 23.2 before 23.2R2-EVO, * from 23.4 before 23.4R1-S1-EVO, 23.4R2-EVO, * from 24.2 before 24.2R2-EVO.
Timeline
ID reserved
By juniper
- 16 days later
· 16 days later
Published
Changes after publication (a new score, a public exploit, EPSS crossing 1, 10 or 50 %, leaving KEV) are kept since November 2026; earlier ones are not known.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| juniperCNA (assigner) | 4.0 | Medium6.9 | CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:L/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:L/R:A |
| juniperCNA (assigner) | 3.1 | Medium5.8 | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:N/I:N/A:L |
| NVDNVD · Analyzed | 4.0 | Medium6.9 | CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:L/VA:N/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/MVI:X/MVA:X/MSC:X/MSI:X/MSA:X/S:X/AU:X/R:A/V:X/RE:X/U:X |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 0.66% · top 48% of all CVEs (14 Nov 2026)
- CISA SSVC
- Exploitation: none · Automatable: yes · Technical impact: partial
The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: Medium 6.9.
Affected products
Juniper Networks · Junos OS Evolved
- affected < 21.4R3-S8-EVO
- affected 22.2 – < 22.2R3-S4-EVO
- affected 22.3 – < 22.3R3-S4-EVO
- affected 22.4 – < 22.4R3-S3-EVO
- affected 23.2 – < 23.2R2-EVO
- affected 23.4 – < 23.4R1-S1-EVO, 23.4R2-EVO
- affected 24.2 – < 24.2R2-EVO
What to do
Solution: The following software releases have been updated to resolve this specific issue: Junos OS Evolved: 21.4R3-S8-EVO, 22.2R3-S4-EVO, 22.3R3-S4-EVO*, 22.4R3-S3-EVO, 23.2R2-EVO, 23.4R1-S1-EVO, 23.4R2-EVO, 24.2R2-EVO*, 24.4R1-EVO*, and all subsequent releases. * Future Release
Workaround: There are no known workarounds for this issue.
Exploitation: Juniper SIRT is not aware of any malicious exploitation of this vulnerability.
References
References1
- https://supportportal.juniper.net/ (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisory
Sources
The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.
- CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
- CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
- NVD (opens in a new tab)
- FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
- EUVD EUVD-2024-42494 (opens in a new tab)
- OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
- GitHub Advisories (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
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