CVE-2026-21903
MEDIUMJuniper Junos OS DoS via Telemetry Sensor Subscription
Title source: llmDescription
A Stack-based Buffer Overflow vulnerability in the Packet Forwarding Engine (pfe) of Juniper Networks Junos OS allows a network-based attacker, authenticated with low privileges to cause a Denial-of-Service (DoS). Subscribing to telemetry sensors at scale causes all FPC connections to drop, resulting in an FPC crash and restart. The issue was not seen when YANG packages for the specific sensors were installed. This issue affects Junos OS: * all versions before 22.4R3-S7, * 23.2 version before 23.2R2-S4, * 23.4 versions before 23.4R2.
References (2)
Core 2
Core References
Vendor Advisory vendor-advisory
https://supportportal.juniper.net/JSA106022
Vendor Advisory vendor-advisory
https://kb.juniper.net/JSA106022
Scores
CVSS v3
6.5
EPSS
0.0002
EPSS Percentile
6.3%
Attack Vector
NETWORK
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
CISA SSVC
Vulnrichment
Exploitation
none
Automatable
no
Technical Impact
partial
Details
CWE
CWE-121
Status
published
Products (4)
juniper/junos
22.4 (14 CPE variants)
juniper/junos
23.2 (8 CPE variants)
juniper/junos
23.4 (4 CPE variants)
juniper/junos
< 22.4
Published
Jan 15, 2026
Tracked Since
Feb 18, 2026