CVE-2026-57022 - Junos OS: MX Series with SPC3, SRX Series: Specific packet in response to a TCP connection establishment by the affected device can crash the PFE

CVE-2026-57022 - Junos OS: MX Series with SPC3, SRX Series: Specific packet in response to a TCP connection establishment by the affected device can crash the PFE

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CVE ID :CVE-2026-57022
Published : July 9, 2026, 10:17 p.m. | 27 minutes ago
Description :An Improper Check for Unusual or Exceptional Conditions vulnerability in the Packet Forwarding Engine (PFE) of Juniper Networks Junos OS on MX with SPC3 and SRX Series allows an unauthenticated, network-based attacker to cause a Denial-of-Service (DoS). When an affected device initiates a TCP connection to an attacker-controlled system that responds with a specific packet, this causes a PFE crash and restart, which affects all services until the system has automatically recovered. This issue can happen among others in the following scenarios: ALG, SSL proxy, UTM, RTLOG, AppQoE probing, AAMW, ICAP, URL filtering. This issue affects Junos OS on MX Series with SPC3, SRX5k Series with SPC3, SRX1600 Series, SRX2300 Series, SRX4000 Series, and vSRX Series: * all versions before 23.2R2-S4, * 23.4 versions before 23.4R2-S5, * 24.2 versions before 24.2R2.
Severity: 8.2 | HIGH
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