CVE-2024-39564: Juniper Junos

High severity, CVSS 7.5. EPSS: 0.4% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

This is a similar, but different vulnerability than the issue reported as CVE-2024-39549. A double-free vulnerability in the routing process daemon (rpd) of Juniper Networks Junos OS and Junos OS Evolved allows an attacker to send a malformed BGP Path attribute update which allocates memory used to log the bad path attribute. This double free of memory is causing an rpd crash, leading to a Denial of Service (DoS). This issue affects: Junos OS:  * from 22.4 before 22.4R3-S4. Junos OS Evolved: * from 22.4 before 22.4R3-S4-EVO.

Affected products

• Juniper Junos: before 21.2 (fixed in 21.2); version 21.2 only; version 21.4 only; version 22.2 only; version 22.3 only; version 22.4 only; …
• Juniper Junos OS Evolved: before 21.2 (fixed in 21.2); version 21.2 only; version 21.4 only; version 22.2 only; version 22.3 only; version 22.4 only; …

Published 2025-02-05. Last modified 2026-06-17.