CVE-2026-101978

Junos OS Evolved: PTX Series: An attacker controlled gRPC response causes root-level compromise when zero-touch provisioning is used

State: Published
Severity: 8.7 High
Published: Oct 14, 2026
Updated: Oct 16, 2026
Reserved: Sep 28, 2026

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Description

An OS Command Injection vulnerability in the bootzd zero-touch provisioning daemon of Juniper Networks Junos OS Evolved on PTX Series allows an unauthenticated attacker on the management LAN to execute commands as root via a crafted gRPC response.

Scores

CVSS	Score	Vector	Source
4.0	8.7 High	CVSS:4.0/AV:A/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:H/VI:H/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:L	juniper
3.1	8.8 High	CVSS:3.1/AV:A/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H	juniper

Weaknesses

CWE-78 Improper Neutralization of Special Elements used in an OS Command ('OS Command Injection')

Affected Products

Product	Versions
Junos OS EvolvedJuniper Networks	24.4 to before 24.4R2-S5-EVOAffected 25.2 to before 25.2R2-S2-EVOAffected 25.4 to before 25.4R1-S3-EVOAffected 26.2 to before 26.2R1-S2-EVOAffected 23.4X100Affected 25.2X100 to before 25.2X100-D35-EVOAffected 25.4X300 to before 25.4X300-D40-EVOAffected

References

https://supportportal.juniper.net/JSA112250vendor-advisory

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