CVE-2026-33781

Junos OS: EX Series, QFX Series: In a VXLAN scenario when specific control protocol packets are received, memory leaks and eventually no traffic is passed

State
Published
Severity
7.1 High
Published
Apr 9, 2026
Updated
Apr 10, 2026
Reserved
Mar 23, 2026

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Description

An Improper Check for Unusual or Exceptional Conditions vulnerability in the packet forwarding engine (pfe) of Juniper Networks Junos OS on specific EX and QFX Series devices allow an unauthenticated, adjacent attacker to cause a complete Denial of Service (DoS).

On EX4k, and QFX5k platforms configured as service-provider edge devices, if L2PT is enabled on the UNI and VSTP is enabled on NNI in VXLAN scenarios, receiving VSTP BPDUs on UNI leads to packet buffer allocation failures, resulting in the device to not pass traffic anymore until it is manually recovered with a restart.This issue affects Junos OS:

* 24.4 releases before 24.4R2, * 25.2 releases before 25.2R1-S1, 25.2R2.

This issue does not affect Junos OS releases before 24.4R1.

Scores

CVSSScoreVectorSource
4.07.1 HighCVSS:4.0/AV:A/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:L/AU:Y/RE:Mjuniper
3.16.5 MediumCVSS:3.1/AV:A/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:Hjuniper

Weaknesses

  • CWE-754 Improper Check for Unusual or Exceptional Conditions

Affected Products

ProductVersions
Junos OSJuniper Networks
  • 24.4 to before 24.4R2Affected
  • 25.2 to before 25.2R1-S1, 25.2R2Affected
  • before 24.4R1Not affected

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