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CVE-2026-57022

Junos OS: MX Series with SPC3, SRX Series: Specific packet in response to a TCP connection establishment by the affected device can crash the PFE

Published
Last modified
published
Not listed in CISA KEV
Fix
Fixed in 23.2R2-S4, 23.4R2-S5, 24.2R2
None on Exploit-DB, Metasploit or GitHub
  • Exploitation: none
  • Automatable: no
  • Technical impact: partial

Summary

An Improper Check for Unusual or Exceptional Conditions vulnerability in the Packet Forwarding Engine (PFE) of Juniper Networks Junos OS on MX with SPC3 and SRX Series allows an unauthenticated, network-based attacker to cause a Denial-of-Service (DoS). When an affected device initiates a TCP connection to an attacker-controlled system that responds with a specific packet, this causes a PFE crash and restart, which affects all services until the system has automatically recovered. This issue can happen among others in the following scenarios: ALG, SSL proxy, UTM, RTLOG, AppQoE probing, AAMW, ICAP, URL filtering. This issue affects Junos OS on MX Series with SPC3, SRX5k Series with SPC3, SRX1600 Series, SRX2300 Series, SRX4000 Series, and vSRX Series: • all versions before 23.2R2-S4, • 23.4 versions before 23.4R2-S5, • 24.2 versions before 24.2R2.

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 23.2R2-S4; From 23.4 · fixed in 23.4R2-S5; From 24.2 · fixed in 24.2R2

References 1

supportportal.juniper.net