Product Affected

This issue affects all versions of Junos OS and Junos OS Evolved.
Medium

Problem

A Use After Free vulnerability in the chassis daemon (chassisd) of Juniper Networks Junos OS and Junos OS Evolved allows a network-based attacker authenticated with low privileges to cause a Denial-of-Service (DoS).

When telemetry collectors are frequently subscribing and unsubscribing to sensors continuously over a long period of time, telemetry-capable processes like chassisd, rpd or mib2d will crash and restart, which - depending on the process - can cause a complete outage until the system has recovered


This issue affects:

 Junos OS: 

 

  • all versions before 22.4R3-S8,
  • 23.2 versions before 23.2R2-S5,
  • 23.4 versions before 23.4R2;

Junos OS Evolved:

 

  • all versions before 22.4R3-S8-EVO,
  • 23.2 versions before 23.2R2-S5-EVO,
  • 23.4 versions before 23.4R2-EVO.

 

A device is only exposed to this issue if GRPC services are configured:

[ system services extension-service request-response grpc ]

 

 

Juniper SIRT is not aware of any malicious exploitation of this vulnerability.

 

This issue was found during internal product security testing or research.

Solution

The following software releases have been updated to resolve this specific issue:
Junos OS Evolved: 22.4R3-S8-EVO, 23.2R2-S5-EVO, 23.4R2-EVO, 24.2R1-EVO, and all subsequent releases;
Junos OS: 22.4R3-S8, 23.2R2-S5, 23.4R2, 24.2R1, and all subsequent releases.

 

This issue is being tracked as 1791928 which is visible on the Customer Support website.

 

Note: Juniper SIRT's policy is not to evaluate releases which are beyond End of Engineering (EOE) or End of Life (EOL).

Workaround

There are no known workarounds for this issue.

Severity Assessment

Information for how Juniper Networks uses CVSS can be found at KB 16446 [juniper.net] "Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) and Juniper's Security Advisories."

Modification History

2026-01-14: Initial Publication

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