CVE-2024-21594

MEDIUM

Published Jan 12, 2024 Modified Nov 21, 2024 CWE-122 CWE-787

Description

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.

Is your site exposed to CVE-2024-21594?

Run a free security scan — no signup, results in seconds.

CVSS v3.1 Score

5.5

MEDIUM

CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Weakness Type (CWE)

CWE-122 CWE-122

CWE-787 Out-of-bounds Write

Affected Products

Vendor	Product	Versions
juniper	junos	< 20.4
juniper	junos	All
juniper	junos	All
juniper	junos	All
juniper	junos	All
juniper	junos	All
juniper	junos	All
juniper	junos	All
juniper	junos	All
juniper	junos	All
juniper	junos	All
juniper	junos	All
juniper	junos	All
juniper	junos	All
juniper	junos	All
juniper	junos	All
juniper	junos	All
juniper	junos	All
juniper	junos	All
juniper	junos	All
juniper	junos	All
juniper	junos	All
juniper	junos	All
juniper	junos	All
juniper	junos	All
juniper	junos	All
juniper	junos	All
juniper	junos	All
juniper	junos	All
juniper	junos	All
juniper	junos	All
juniper	junos	All
juniper	junos	All
juniper	junos	All
juniper	junos	All
juniper	junos	All
juniper	junos	All
juniper	junos	All
juniper	junos	All
juniper	junos	All
juniper	junos	All
juniper	junos	All
juniper	junos	All
juniper	junos	All
juniper	junos	All
juniper	junos	All
juniper	junos	All
juniper	junos	All
juniper	junos	All
juniper	junos	All
juniper	junos	All
juniper	junos	All
juniper	junos	All
juniper	junos	All
juniper	junos	All
juniper	junos	All
juniper	junos	All
juniper	junos	All
juniper	junos	All
juniper	junos	All
juniper	junos	All
juniper	junos	All
juniper	junos	All
juniper	junos	All
juniper	junos	All
juniper	junos	All
juniper	junos	All
juniper	junos	All
juniper	junos	All
juniper	junos	All
juniper	junos	All
juniper	junos	All
juniper	junos	All
juniper	junos	All

References

Advisories & Patches

https://supportportal.juniper.net/JSA75733 https://www.first.org/cvss/calculator/4.0#CVSS:4.0/AV:L/AC:L/AT:N/PR:L/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N https://supportportal.juniper.net/JSA75733 https://www.first.org/cvss/calculator/4.0#CVSS:4.0/AV:L/AC:L/AT:N/PR:L/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N

Frequently Asked Questions

What is CVE-2024-21594? +

How severe is CVE-2024-21594? +

CVE-2024-21594 has a CVSS v3.1 score of 5.5 out of 10, rated MEDIUM. This is a medium-severity vulnerability that should be remediated as part of regular maintenance.

What products are affected by CVE-2024-21594? +

CVE-2024-21594 affects products from juniper, specifically: junos. Check the affected products table above for specific version ranges.

How do I check if I'm vulnerable to CVE-2024-21594? +

You can use Secably's free Website Scanner to check your website for known vulnerabilities. For infrastructure scanning, use the Port Scanner to identify exposed services that may be affected. Check the vendor advisories linked above for specific patch and version information.

Related Vulnerabilities

CVE-2026-8997

vifm is vulnerable to a heap buffer overflow during the history merge process when saving the state file (vifminfo.json). This …

CVE-2026-8484

A heap buffer overflow vulnerability exists in the Jansi JNI "ioctl()" wrapper due to a lack of size verification for …

CVE-2026-6210

A type confusion vulnerability in Qt SVG allows an attacker to cause an application crash via a crafted SVG image. …

CVE-2026-2467

Heap-based Buffer Overflow vulnerability in RTI Connext Professional (Core Libraries) allows Overflow Variables and Tags.This issue affects Connext Professional: from …

CVE-2025-0633

Heap-based Buffer Overflow vulnerability in iniparser_dumpsection_ini() in iniparser allows attacker to read out of bound memory

CVE-2025-3512

There is a Heap-based Buffer Overflow vulnerability in QTextMarkdownImporter. This requires an incorrectly formatted markdown file to be passed to …