CVE-2026-21909
Essential information
- Published
- 15/01/2026 21:16
- Modified
- 16/01/2026 15:55
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- CVSS
- 7.1 HIGH (v3) 7.1 HIGH (v4.0)
- CISA KEV
- No
- CWE
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- CVSS vector
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CVSS:4.0/AV:A/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:L/E:X/CR:X/IR:X/AR:X/MAV:X/MAC:X/MAT:X/MPR:X/MUI:X/MVC:X/MVI:X/MVA:X/MSC:X/MSI:X/MSA:X/S:X/AU:Y/R:A/V:C/RE:M/U:Green
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- Attack vector
- ADJACENT
- Attack complexity
- LOW
- Attack requirements
- NONE
- Privileges required
- NONE
- User interaction
- NONE
- Confidentiality (V)
- NONE
- Confidentiality (S)
- NONE
- Integrity (V)
- NONE
- Integrity (S)
- NONE
- Availability (V)
- HIGH
- Availability (S)
- LOW
- Exploit maturity
- NOT_DEFINED
Description
A Missing Release of Memory after Effective Lifetime vulnerability in the routing protocol daemon (rpd) Juniper Networks Junos OS and Junos OS Evolved allows an unauthenticated attacker controlling an adjacent IS-IS neighbor to send a specific update packet causing a memory leak. Continued receipt and processing of these packets will exhaust all available memory, crashing rpd and creating a Denial of Service (DoS) condition.
Memory usage can be monitored through the use of the 'show task memory detail' command. For example:
user@junos> show task memory detail | match ted-infra
TED-INFRA-COOKIE 25 1072 28 1184 229
user@junos>
show task memory detail | match ted-infra
TED-INFRA-COOKIE 31 1360 34 1472 307
This issue affects:
Junos OS:
* from 23.2 before 23.2R2,
* from 23.4 before 23.4R1-S2, 23.4R2,
* from 24.1 before 24.1R2;
Junos OS Evolved:
* from 23.2 before 23.2R2-EVO,
* from 23.4 before 23.4R1-S2-EVO, 23.4R2-EVO,
* from 24.1 before 24.1R2-EVO.
This issue does not affect Junos OS versions before 23.2R1 or Junos OS Evolved versions before 23.2R1-EVO.
NVD status
- Status
- Awaiting Analysis — CVE has been recently published to the CVE List and has been received by the NVD.
- Source
- [email protected]
- NVD
- View on NVD
Affected products (CPE)
| Product | CPE |
|---|---|
| juniper / juniper junos os | cpe:2.3:a:juniper:juniper_junos_os:<23.2:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |
| juniper / juniper junos os | cpe:2.3:a:juniper:juniper_junos_os:<23.4.*:*:*:*:*:*:* |
| juniper / juniper junos os | cpe:2.3:a:juniper:juniper_junos_os:23.4R2:*:*:*:*:*:* |
| juniper / juniper junos os | cpe:2.3:a:juniper:juniper_junos_os:<24.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |
| juniper / juniper junos os evolved | cpe:2.3:a:juniper:juniper_junos_os_evolved:<23.2:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |
| juniper / juniper junos os evolved | cpe:2.3:a:juniper:juniper_junos_os_evolved:<23.4.*:*:*:*:*:*:* |
| juniper / juniper junos os evolved | cpe:2.3:a:juniper:juniper_junos_os_evolved:23.4R2-EVO:*:*:*:*:*:* |
| juniper / juniper junos os evolved | cpe:2.3:a:juniper:juniper_junos_os_evolved:<24.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |