Product Affected

These issues affect all versions of Junos OS. Affected platforms: MX Series.
Critical

Problem

Multiple vulnerabilities have been resolved in the Juniper Networks Junos OS on MX Series. These issues were found during extensive internal product security testing.

These issues affect:

Junos OS:

  • All versions before 23.2R2-S7.7;
  • from 23.4 before 23.4R2-S8.13;
  • from 24.2 before 24.2R2-S5.5;
  • from 24.4 before 24.4R2-S5;
  • from 25.2 before 25.2R2-S2;
  • from 25.4 before 25.4R1-S3;
  • from 26.2 before 26.2R1-S2;

Note: For Junos OS releases 23.2, 23.4, and 24.2, specific respins have been referenced. Previously published versions of these releases have been rebuilt to resolve the security vulnerabilities identified in this advisory.

 

Important security issues resolved include:

CVECVSSSummary
CVE-2026-1020636.5 (CVSS:3.1/AV:A/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H)
7.1 (CVSS:4.0/AV:A/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:L)
Junos OS: MX Series: An unauthenticated network attacker causes an rpd crash when HFRR link protection is used
CVE-2026-1020467.5 (CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H)
8.7 (CVSS: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/V:C/RE:M)
Junos OS: MX Series: An attacker causes a Routing Engine denial of service when SCTP service is used
CVE-2026-1021829.8 (CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H)
9.3 (CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:H/VI:H/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:L/AU:Y/R:A/V:C/RE:M)
Junos OS: MX Series: Certificate-based IKE packets cause root-level code execution

 

Juniper SIRT is not aware of any malicious exploitation of these vulnerabilities.

These issues were found during internal product security testing or research.

Solution

The following software releases have been updated to resolve this specific issue:

Junos OS: 23.2R2-S7.7, 23.4R2-S8.13, 24.2R2-S5.5, 24.4R2-S5, 25.2R2-S2, 25.4R1-S3, 25.4R2, 26.2R1-S2, 26.2R2, 26.4R1, and all subsequent releases.

Note: For Junos OS releases 23.2, 23.4, and 24.2, specific respins have been referenced. Previously published versions of these releases have been rebuilt to resolve the security vulnerabilities identified in this advisory.

These issues are being tracked as 1955220, 1957225 and 1952216 which are 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 all of these issues.

Refer to the specific CVE records for additional details on potential individual workarounds.

 

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

2026-10-14: Initial Publication

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