CVE-2026-21917

HIGH

Juniper Junos - Denial of Service

Title source: rule
STIX 2.1

Description

An Improper Validation of Syntactic Correctness of Input vulnerability in the Web-Filtering module of Juniper Networks Junos OS on SRX Series allows an unauthenticated, network-based attacker to cause a Denial-of-Service (DoS). If an SRX device configured for UTM Web-Filtering receives a specifically malformed SSL packet, this will cause an FPC crash and restart. This issue affects Junos OS on SRX Series: * 23.2 versions from 23.2R2-S2 before 23.2R2-S5,  * 23.4 versions from 23.4R2-S1 before 23.4R2-S5, * 24.2 versions before 24.2R2-S2, * 24.4 versions before 24.4R1-S3, 24.4R2. Earlier versions of Junos are also affected, but no fix is available.

Scores

CVSS v3 7.5
EPSS 0.0004
EPSS Percentile 10.5%
Attack Vector NETWORK
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

CISA SSVC

Vulnrichment
Exploitation none
Automatable yes
Technical Impact partial

Details

CWE
CWE-1286
Status published
Products (4)
juniper/junos 23.2 r2-s2 (3 CPE variants)
juniper/junos 23.4 r2-s1 (4 CPE variants)
juniper/junos 24.2 (6 CPE variants)
juniper/junos 24.4 (4 CPE variants)
Published Jan 15, 2026
Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026