A Stack-based Buffer Overflow vulnerability in the Packet Forwarding Engine (pfe) of Juniper Networks Junos OS allows a network-based attacker, authenticated with low privileges to cause a Denial-of-Service (DoS).



Subscribing to telemetry sensors at scale causes all FPC connections to drop, resulting in an FPC crash and restart.
The issue was not seen when YANG packages for the specific sensors were installed.



This issue affects Junos OS: 



* all versions before 22.4R3-S7,
* 23.2 version before 23.2R2-S4,
* 23.4 versions before 23.4R2.
Advisories

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Fixes

Solution

The following software releases have been updated to resolve this specific issue: 22.4R3-S7, 23.2R2-S4, 23.4R2, 24.2R1, and all subsequent releases.


Workaround

There are no known workarounds for this issue.

History

Thu, 15 Jan 2026 20:30:00 +0000

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Description A Stack-based Buffer Overflow vulnerability in the Packet Forwarding Engine (pfe) of Juniper Networks Junos OS allows a network-based attacker, authenticated with low privileges to cause a Denial-of-Service (DoS). Subscribing to telemetry sensors at scale causes all FPC connections to drop, resulting in an FPC crash and restart. The issue was not seen when YANG packages for the specific sensors were installed. This issue affects Junos OS:  * all versions before 22.4R3-S7, * 23.2 version before 23.2R2-S4, * 23.4 versions before 23.4R2.
Title Junos OS: Subscribing to telemetry sensors at scale causes all FPCs to crash
Weaknesses CWE-121
References
Metrics cvssV3_1

{'score': 6.5, 'vector': 'CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H'}

cvssV4_0

{'score': 7.1, 'vector': 'CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:L/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:L'}


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cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: juniper

Published:

Updated: 2026-01-15T21:12:08.631Z

Reserved: 2026-01-05T17:32:48.709Z

Link: CVE-2026-21903

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cve-icon NVD

Status : Received

Published: 2026-01-15T21:16:05.807

Modified: 2026-01-15T21:16:05.807

Link: CVE-2026-21903

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Weaknesses