{"cve":"CVE-2024-21599","nvd":{"published":"2024-01-12T01:15:47.660","modified":"2026-06-17T07:09:48.080","status":"Modified","description":"A Missing Release of Memory after Effective Lifetime vulnerability in the Packet Forwarding Engine (PFE) of Juniper Networks Junos OS on MX Series allows an adjacent, unauthenticated attacker to cause a Denial of Service (DoS).\n\nIf an MX Series device receives PTP packets on an MPC3E that doesn't support PTP this causes a memory leak which will result in unpredictable behavior and ultimately in an MPC crash and restart.\n\nTo monitor for this issue, please use the following FPC vty level commands:\n\nshow heap\nshows an increase in \"LAN buffer\" utilization and\n\nshow clksync ptp nbr-upd-info\nshows non-zero \"Pending PFEs\" counter.\n\nThis issue affects Juniper Networks Junos OS on MX Series with MPC3E:\n\n\n\n  *  All versions earlier than 20.4R3-S3;\n  *  21.1 versions earlier than 21.1R3-S4;\n  *  21.2 versions earlier than 21.2R3;\n  *  21.3 versions earlier than 21.3R2-S1, 21.3R3;\n  *  21.4 versions earlier than 21.4R2;\n  *  22.1 versions earlier than 22.1R2.","cvss_v4":null,"cvss_v3":{"version":"3.1","vector":"CVSS:3.1/AV:A/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H","score":6.5},"cwes":["CWE-401"],"references":["https://supportportal.juniper.net/JSA75740","https://www.first.org/cvss/calculator/4.0#CVSS:4.0/AV:A/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:L","https://supportportal.juniper.net/JSA75740","https://www.first.org/cvss/calculator/4.0#CVSS:4.0/AV:A/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:L"],"products":["juniper:junos"],"source":"nvd","synced_at":"2026-10-19T21:43:38.875533635+00:00"},"epss":{"cve":"CVE-2024-21599","score":0.00291,"percentile":0.21682,"date":"2026-11-01"},"kev":null,"osv":[],"attribution":["This product uses the NVD API but is not endorsed or certified by the NVD.","EPSS scores: FIRST Exploit Prediction Scoring System, https://www.first.org/epss","Known exploited vulnerabilities: CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities Catalog, https://www.cisa.gov/known-exploited-vulnerabilities-catalog","Package advisories: OSV (https://osv.dev), from the GitHub Advisory Database, PyPA, Go, RustSec and other ecosystem databases, under CC-BY 4.0 or CC0","CVE records: the CVE Program's CVE List (https://www.cve.org), under its terms of use (https://www.cve.org/Legal/TermsOfUse). CVE is a registered trademark of The MITRE Corporation; this product is not affiliated with the CVE Program."]}