{"id":"CVE-2024-21597","aliases":["EUVD-2024-19245","GHSA-m474-q42g-p73p"],"status":"published","title":"Junos OS: MX Series: In an AF scenario traffic can bypass configured lo0 firewall filters","description":"An Exposure of Resource to Wrong Sphere vulnerability in the Packet Forwarding Engine (PFE) of Juniper Networks Junos OS on MX Series allows an unauthenticated, network-based attacker to bypass the intended access restrictions.\n\nIn an Abstracted Fabric (AF) scenario if routing-instances (RI) are configured, specific valid traffic destined to the device can bypass the configured lo0 firewall filters as it's received in the wrong RI context.\n\nThis issue affects Juniper Networks Junos OS on MX Series:\n\n\n\n  *  All versions earlier than 20.4R3-S9;\n  *  21.2 versions earlier than 21.2R3-S3;\n  *  21.4 versions earlier than 21.4R3-S5;\n  *  22.1 versions earlier than 22.1R3;\n  *  22.2 versions earlier than 22.2R3;\n  *  22.3 versions earlier than 22.3R2.","severity":{"version":"3.1","score":5.3,"vector":"CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N","level":"medium","assessor":"cna","from":"cve"},"epss":{"day":"2026-11-10","score":0.00375,"percentile":0.31741,"model":"v2026.06.15"},"facts":{"in_kev":false,"known_exploited":false,"public_exploit":false,"fix_available":false},"cwes":["CWE-668"],"published":"2024-01-12T00:53:07Z","modified":"2026-06-17T07:09:47Z","products":[{"vendor":"juniper","product":"junos"},{"vendor":"juniper networks","product":"junos os"}],"references":[{"url":"https://supportportal.juniper.net/JSA75738","tags":["vendor-advisory","x_transferred","Vendor Advisory"]},{"url":"https://www.first.org/cvss/calculator/4.0#CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:L/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N","tags":["technical-description","x_transferred","Third Party Advisory"]},{"url":"https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2024-21597"},{"url":"https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-m474-q42g-p73p"}],"sources":{"cve":[{"id":"CVE-2024-21597","title":"Junos OS: MX Series: In an AF scenario traffic can bypass configured lo0 firewall filters","description":"\nAn Exposure of Resource to Wrong Sphere vulnerability in the Packet Forwarding Engine (PFE) of Juniper Networks Junos OS on MX Series allows an unauthenticated, network-based attacker to bypass the intended access restrictions.\n\nIn an Abstracted Fabric (AF) scenario if routing-instances (RI) are configured, specific valid traffic destined to the device can bypass the configured lo0 firewall filters as it's received in the wrong RI context.\n\nThis issue affects Juniper Networks Junos OS on MX Series:\n\n\n\n  *  All versions earlier than 20.4R3-S9;\n  *  21.2 versions earlier than 21.2R3-S3;\n  *  21.4 versions earlier than 21.4R3-S5;\n  *  22.1 versions earlier than 22.1R3;\n  *  22.2 versions earlier than 22.2R3;\n  *  22.3 versions earlier than 22.3R2.\n\n\n\n\n\n\n","status":"published","published":"2024-01-12T00:53:07.122Z","modified":"2025-06-03T14:05:47.674Z","cvss":[{"version":"3.1","score":5.3,"vector":"CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N","level":"medium","assessor":"cna"}],"cwes":["CWE-668"],"updated_at":"2026-11-02T14:34:05.077718Z"}],"euvd":[{"id":"EUVD-2024-19245","description":"\nAn Exposure of Resource to Wrong Sphere vulnerability in the Packet Forwarding Engine (PFE) of Juniper Networks Junos OS on MX Series allows an unauthenticated, network-based attacker to bypass the intended access restrictions.\n\nIn an Abstracted Fabric (AF) scenario if routing-instances (RI) are configured, specific valid traffic destined to the device can bypass the configured lo0 firewall filters as it's received in the wrong RI context.\n\nThis issue affects Juniper Networks Junos OS on MX Series:\n\n\n\n  *  All versions earlier than 20.4R3-S9;\n  *  21.2 versions 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