CVE-2026-21913

Junos OS: EX4000: A high volume of traffic destined to the device leads to a crash and restart

Published Jan 15, 2026 CVSS 4.0 · 8.7 High EPSS < 1% KEV · Not listed
Description
An Incorrect Initialization of Resource vulnerability in the Internal Device Manager (IDM) of Juniper Networks Junos OS on EX4000 models allows an unauthenticated, network-based attacker to cause a Denial-of-Service (DoS).

On EX4000 models with 48 ports (EX4000-48T, EX4000-48P, EX4000-48MP) a high volume of traffic destined to the device will cause an FXPC crash and restart, which leads to a complete service outage until the device has automatically restarted.




The following reboot reason can be seen in the output of 'show chassis routing-engine' and as a log message:

  reason=0x4000002 reason_string=0x4000002:watchdog + panic with core dump




This issue affects Junos OS on EX4000-48T, EX4000-48P and EX4000-48MP:



* 24.4 versions before 24.4R2,
* 25.2 versions before 25.2R1-S2, 25.2R2.




This issue does not affect versions before 24.4R1 as the first Junos OS version for the EX4000 models was 24.4R1.

Remediation

Vendor Solution

The following software releases have been updated to resolve this specific issue: 24.4R2, 25.2R1-S2, 25.2R2, 25.4R1, and all subsequent releases.


Vendor Workaround

There are no known workarounds for this issue.

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History
Type Values Removed Values Added
First Time appeared Juniper
Juniper ex4000-48mp
Juniper ex4000-48p
Juniper ex4000-48t
Juniper junos
Weaknesses CWE-665
CPEs cpe:2.3:h:juniper:ex4000-48mp:-:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:h:juniper:ex4000-48p:-:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:h:juniper:ex4000-48t:-:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:o:juniper:junos:24.4:-:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:o:juniper:junos:24.4:r1-s2:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:o:juniper:junos:24.4:r1-s3:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:o:juniper:junos:24.4:r1:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:o:juniper:junos:25.2:-:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:o:juniper:junos:25.2:r1-s1:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:o:juniper:junos:25.2:r1:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:o:juniper:junos:25.2:r2:*:*:*:*:*:*
Vendors & Products Juniper
Juniper ex4000-48mp
Juniper ex4000-48p
Juniper ex4000-48t
Juniper junos
Type Values Removed Values Added
First Time appeared Juniper Networks
Juniper Networks junos Os
Vendors & Products Juniper Networks
Juniper Networks junos Os
Type Values Removed Values Added
Metrics ssvc

{'options': {'Automatable': 'yes', 'Exploitation': 'none', 'Technical Impact': 'partial'}, 'version': '2.0.3'}

Type Values Removed Values Added
Description An Incorrect Initialization of Resource vulnerability in the Internal Device Manager (IDM) of Juniper Networks Junos OS on EX4000 models allows an unauthenticated, network-based attacker to cause a Denial-of-Service (DoS). On EX4000 models with 48 ports (EX4000-48T, EX4000-48P, EX4000-48MP) a high volume of traffic destined to the device will cause an FXPC crash and restart, which leads to a complete service outage until the device has automatically restarted. The following reboot reason can be seen in the output of 'show chassis routing-engine' and as a log message:   reason=0x4000002 reason_string=0x4000002:watchdog + panic with core dump This issue affects Junos OS on EX4000-48T, EX4000-48P and EX4000-48MP: * 24.4 versions before 24.4R2, * 25.2 versions before 25.2R1-S2, 25.2R2. This issue does not affect versions before 24.4R1 as the first Junos OS version for the EX4000 models was 24.4R1.
Title Junos OS: EX4000: A high volume of traffic destined to the device leads to a crash and restart
Weaknesses CWE-1419
References
Metrics cvssV3_1

{'score': 7.5, 'vector': 'CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H'}

cvssV4_0

{'score': 8.7, 'vector': 'CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:L/AU:Y/R:A/RE:M'}

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Status
PUBLISHED
Assigner
juniper
Published
Updated
Jan 15, 2026, 8:45 PM
Reserved
Jan 5, 2026, 5:32 PM
Status
Analyzed
Published
Jan 15, 2026, 9:16 PM
Modified
Jun 17, 2026, 10:19 AM