CVE 7.5 HIGH

Junos OS: SRX Series: A specifically malformed GTP message will cause an FPC crash_CVE-2026-21914

7.5 / 10
HIGH
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Description

An Improper Locking vulnerability in the GTP plugin of Juniper Networks Junos OS on SRX Series allows an unauthenticated, network-based attacker to cause a Denial-of-Service (Dos).

If an SRX Series device receives a specifically malformed GPRS Tunnelling Protocol (GTP) Modify Bearer Request message, a lock is acquired and never released. This results in other threads not being able to acquire a lock themselves, causing a watchdog timeout leading to FPC crash and restart. This issue leads to a complete traffic outage until the device has automatically recovered.

This issue affects Junos OS on SRX Series:

* all versions before 22.4R3-S8,
* 23.2 versions before 23.2R2-S5,
* 23.4 versions before 23.4R2-S6,
* 24.2 versions before 24.2R2-S3,
* 24.4 versions before 24.4R2-S2,
* 25.2 versions before 25.2R1-S1, 25.2R2.

Basic Information

ID CVE-2026-21914
Source juniper
Published Jan 15, 2026 at 20:25
Modified Jan 15, 2026 at 20:44

Affected Product

Vendor Juniper Networks
Product Junos OS
Affected Versions Juniper Networks Junos OS 0
Juniper Networks Junos OS 23.2
Juniper Networks Junos OS 23.4
Juniper Networks Junos OS 24.2
Juniper Networks Junos OS 24.4
Juniper Networks Junos OS 25.2

CWE Classification

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