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.
Advisories

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Fixes

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.


Workaround

There are no known workarounds for this issue.

History

Thu, 15 Jan 2026 21:15:00 +0000

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Metrics ssvc

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


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

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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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cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: juniper

Published:

Updated: 2026-01-15T20:45:02.652Z

Reserved: 2026-01-05T17:32:48.710Z

Link: CVE-2026-21913

cve-icon Vulnrichment

Updated: 2026-01-15T20:44:59.188Z

cve-icon NVD

Status : Received

Published: 2026-01-15T21:16:07.537

Modified: 2026-01-15T21:16:07.537

Link: CVE-2026-21913

cve-icon Redhat

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cve-icon OpenCVE Enrichment

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