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CVE-2026-21921

Junos OS and Junos OS Evolved: When telemetry collectors are frequently subscribing and unsubscribing to sensors chassisd or rpd will crash

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published
Not listed in CISA KEV
Fix
Fixed in 22.4R3-S8, 23.2R2-S5, 23.4R2, 22.4R3-S8-EVO, 23.2R2-S5-EVO, and 1 more
None on Exploit-DB, Metasploit or GitHub
  • Exploitation: none
  • Automatable: no
  • Technical impact: partial

Summary

A Use After Free vulnerability in the chassis daemon (chassisd) of Juniper Networks Junos OS and Junos OS Evolved allows a network-based attacker authenticated with low privileges to cause a Denial-of-Service (DoS). When telemetry collectors are frequently subscribing and unsubscribing to sensors continuously over a long period of time, telemetry-capable processes like chassisd, rpd or mib2d will crash and restart, which - depending on the process - can cause a complete outage until the system has recovered. This issue affects:  Junos OS:  • all versions before 22.4R3-S8, • 23.2 versions before 23.2R2-S5, • 23.4 versions before 23.4R2; Junos OS Evolved: • all versions before 22.4R3-S8-EVO, • 23.2 versions before 23.2R2-S5-EVO, • 23.4 versions before 23.4R2-EVO.

Timeline

  1. CVE published
  2. CISA SSVC assessment

    Exploitation: none · Automatable: no · Technical impact: partial

  3. Record last updated

Affected versions

  • Juniper Networks Junos OS

    fixed in 22.4R3-S8; From 23.2 · fixed in 23.2R2-S5; From 23.4 · fixed in 23.4R2

  • Juniper Networks Junos OS Evolved

    fixed in 22.4R3-S8-EVO; From 23.2 · fixed in 23.2R2-S5-EVO; From 23.4 · fixed in 23.4R2-EVO

References 2

supportportal.juniper.net

kb.juniper.net