Juniper releases out-of-cycle fix for max severity auth bypass flaw

Juniper released an out-of-cycle emergency update for CVE-2024-2973 — a critical authentication-bypass in Session Smart Router, Session Smart Conductor, and WAN Assurance Router when deployed in high-availability redundant configurations that could allow a network attacker to take full control; affected versions and patched releases are listed, no workarounds exist, and administrators are urged to apply the fixes.