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.
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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
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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 | |
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Status: PUBLISHED
Assigner: juniper
Published:
Updated: 2026-01-15T20:45:02.652Z
Reserved: 2026-01-05T17:32:48.710Z
Link: CVE-2026-21913
Updated: 2026-01-15T20:44:59.188Z
Status : Received
Published: 2026-01-15T21:16:07.537
Modified: 2026-01-15T21:16:07.537
Link: CVE-2026-21913
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