CVE-2026-57020

Junos OS: QFX10000 Series: IPv6 multicast traffic received on non-IRB interfaces causes a multicast flood

State
Published
Severity
7.1 High
Published
Jul 9, 2026
Updated
Jul 10, 2026
Reserved
Jun 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 QFX10000 Series allows an unauthenticated, adjacent attacker to cause a Denial-of-Service (DoS).

On all QFX10000 platforms in an EVPN-VxLAN scenario, if an attacker sends IPv6 multicast traffic and these packets reach the non-IRB interface of a spine switch it floods the packet to other spines and all Ethernet Segment Identifier (ESI) leaf switches. This flooding causes the packet to be forwarded in a endless loop, which can lead to saturation of the involved links and in turn impact to legitimate traffic.

This issue affects Junos OS on QFX10000 Series:

* all versions before 23.2R2-S7, * 23.4 versions before 23.4R2-S8, * 24.2 versions before 24.2R2-S4, * 24.4 versions before 24.4R2-S4.

This issue does not affect Junos version after 24.4 as the QFX10000 Series devices are not supported on newer versions anymore.

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/R:U/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
  • before 23.2R2-S7Affected
  • 23.4 to before 23.4R2-S8Affected
  • 24.2 to before 24.2R2-S4Affected
  • 24.4 to before 24.4R2-S4Affected

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