CVE-2024-39534: Juniper Junos OS Evolved

Medium severity, CVSS 5.4. EPSS: 0.7% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

An Incorrect Comparison vulnerability in the local address verification API of Juniper Networks Junos OS Evolved allows an unauthenticated network-adjacent attacker to create sessions or send traffic to the device using the network and broadcast address of the subnet assigned to an interface. This is unintended and unexpected behavior and can allow an attacker to bypass certain compensating controls, such as stateless firewall filters. This issue affects Junos OS Evolved:  * All versions before 21.4R3-S8-EVO,  * 22.2-EVO before 22.2R3-S4-EVO,  * 22.3-EVO before 22.3R3-S4-EVO,  * 22.4-EVO before 22.4R3-S3-EVO,  * 23.2-EVO before 23.2R2-S1-EVO,  * 23.4-EVO before 23.4R1-S2-EVO, 23.4R2-EVO.

Affected products

• Juniper Junos OS Evolved: before 21.4 (fixed in 21.4); version 21.4 only; version 22.2 only; version 22.3 only; version 22.4 only; version 23.2 only; …

Published 2024-10-11. Last modified 2026-06-17.