CVE-2026-21903

MEDIUM

Juniper Junos OS DoS via Telemetry Sensor Subscription

Title source: llm
STIX 2.1

Description

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