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Medium · 5.9 CVE-2026-102078 EUVD-2026-101466GHSA-vwc2-r92q-mf9c

Junos OS: SRX Series: A high volume of DNS traffic over TCP can lead to a flowd crash

Published Oct 14, 2026 · Updated Oct 14, 2026 · Assigned by juniper

Description

A Use After Free vulnerability in the packet forwarding engine (pfe) of Juniper Networks Junos OS on SRX Series allows an unauthenticated, network-based attacker to cause a Denial-of-Service (DoS).

When web filtering for TCP traffic is configured, a high volume of DNS requests increases the likelihood of a flowd crash and restart, which leads to a complete service outage until the service has automatically recovered. This is a race condition outside the attacker's direct control.

This issue affects Junos OS on SRX Series:

* All versions before 23.2R2-S5;
* from 23.4 before 23.4R2-S6;
* from 24.2 before 24.2R2-S3;
* from 24.4 before 24.4R2-S1;
* from 25.2 before 25.2R1-S1, 25.2R2.

Affected products

VendorProductAffectedFixed
Juniper Networks Junos OS < 23.2R2-S5, 23.4 – < 23.4R2-S6, 24.2 – < 24.2R2-S3, 24.4 – < 24.4R2-S1, 25.2 – < 25.2R1-S1, 25.2R2 23.2R2-S5

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