Juniper Rushes Out Emergency Patch for Critical Smart Router Flaw

Juniper Networks issued an out-of-cycle emergency patch for a critical authentication bypass (CVE-2024-2973, CVSS 10) affecting Session Smart Router, Session Smart Conductor, and WAN Assurance Router in high-availability redundant deployments; Juniper advises immediate updates, notes managed/conductor-updated routers will be remediated automatically, and reports no evidence of in-the-wild exploitation.