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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.

PUBLISHED Reserved 2026-01-05 | Published 2026-01-15 | Updated 2026-01-15 | Assigner juniper




HIGH: 7.5CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

HIGH: 8.7CVSS: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

Problem types

CWE-1419 Incorrect Initialization of Resource

Product status

Default status
unaffected

24.4 (semver) before 24.4R2
affected

25.2 (semver) before 25.2R1-S2, 25.2R2
affected

Any version before 24.4R1
unaffected

References

supportportal.juniper.net/JSA106014 vendor-advisory

kb.juniper.net/JSA106014 vendor-advisory

cve.org (CVE-2026-21913)

nvd.nist.gov (CVE-2026-21913)

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