CVE-2024-21609
CVSS 3.1 Score 6.5 of 10 (medium)
Details
Summary
CVE-2024-21609 is a vulnerability in the IKE daemon (iked) of Juniper Networks Junos OS on MX Series with SPC3, and SRX Series. It allows an attacker who can establish IPsec tunnels to cause a Denial of Service (DoS) by exploiting a missing release of memory after effective lifetime. This occurs during IPsec SA rekey with specific message sequences, leading to a memory leak and eventual iked process crash and restart. The affected versions are all prior to 20.4R3-S9. Organizations can check the iked process memory consumption using a specific command. The vulnerability has a base severity rating of MEDIUM, with an exploitability score of 2.8 and an impact score of 3.6.
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