An Improper Check for Unusual or Exceptional Conditions vulnerability in the packet forwarding engine (pfe) of Juniper Networks Junos OS on specific EX and QFX Series devices allow an unauthenticated, adjacent attacker to cause a complete Denial of Service (DoS).

On EX4k, and QFX5k platforms configured as service-provider edge devices, if L2PT is enabled on the UNI and VSTP is enabled on NNI in VXLAN scenarios, receiving VSTP BPDUs on UNI leads to packet buffer allocation failures, resulting in the device to not pass traffic anymore until it is manually recovered with a restart.This issue affects Junos OS:



* 24.4 releases before 24.4R2,
* 25.2 releases before 25.2R1-S1, 25.2R2.




This issue does not affect Junos OS releases before 24.4R1.

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Solution

The following software releases have been updated to resolve this specific issue: 24.4R2, 25.2R1-S1, 25.2R2, 25.4R1, and all subsequent releases.


Workaround

To prevent VSTP BPDUs from being processed on UNI interfaces configure: [ protocols layer2-control bpdu-block interface all drop ]

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History

Fri, 17 Apr 2026 18:00:00 +0000

Type Values Removed Values Added
First Time appeared Juniper
Juniper ex4000
Juniper ex4100
Juniper ex4100-f
Juniper ex4100-h
Juniper ex4300
Juniper ex4400
Juniper ex4600
Juniper ex4650
Juniper junos
Juniper qfx5110
Juniper qfx5120
Juniper qfx5130
Juniper qfx5200
Juniper qfx5210
Juniper qfx5220
Juniper qfx5230-64cd
Juniper qfx5240
Juniper qfx5241
Juniper qfx5700
CPEs cpe:2.3:h:juniper:ex4000:-:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:h:juniper:ex4100-f:-:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:h:juniper:ex4100-h:-:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:h:juniper:ex4100:-:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:h:juniper:ex4300:-:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:h:juniper:ex4400:-:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:h:juniper:ex4600:-:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:h:juniper:ex4650:-:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:h:juniper:qfx5110:-:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:h:juniper:qfx5120:-:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:h:juniper:qfx5130:-:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:h:juniper:qfx5200:-:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:h:juniper:qfx5210:-:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:h:juniper:qfx5220:-:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:h:juniper:qfx5230-64cd:-:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:h:juniper:qfx5240:-:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:h:juniper:qfx5241:-:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:h:juniper:qfx5700:-:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:o:juniper:junos:24.4:-:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:o:juniper:junos:24.4:r1-s2:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:o:juniper:junos:24.4:r1-s3:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:o:juniper:junos:24.4:r1:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:o:juniper:junos:25.2:-:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:o:juniper:junos:25.2:r1:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:o:juniper:junos:25.2:r2:*:*:*:*:*:*
Vendors & Products Juniper
Juniper ex4000
Juniper ex4100
Juniper ex4100-f
Juniper ex4100-h
Juniper ex4300
Juniper ex4400
Juniper ex4600
Juniper ex4650
Juniper junos
Juniper qfx5110
Juniper qfx5120
Juniper qfx5130
Juniper qfx5200
Juniper qfx5210
Juniper qfx5220
Juniper qfx5230-64cd
Juniper qfx5240
Juniper qfx5241
Juniper qfx5700

Fri, 10 Apr 2026 14:15:00 +0000

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Metrics ssvc

{'options': {'Automatable': 'no', 'Exploitation': 'none', 'Technical Impact': 'partial'}, 'version': '2.0.3'}


Fri, 10 Apr 2026 09:00:00 +0000

Type Values Removed Values Added
First Time appeared Juniper Networks
Juniper Networks junos Os
Vendors & Products Juniper Networks
Juniper Networks junos Os

Thu, 09 Apr 2026 22:00:00 +0000

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Description An Improper Check for Unusual or Exceptional Conditions vulnerability in the packet forwarding engine (pfe) of Juniper Networks Junos OS on specific EX and QFX Series devices allow an unauthenticated, adjacent attacker to cause a complete Denial of Service (DoS). On EX4k, and QFX5k platforms configured as service-provider edge devices, if L2PT is enabled on the UNI and VSTP is enabled on NNI in VXLAN scenarios, receiving VSTP BPDUs on UNI leads to packet buffer allocation failures, resulting in the device to not pass traffic anymore until it is manually recovered with a restart.This issue affects Junos OS: * 24.4 releases before 24.4R2, * 25.2 releases before 25.2R1-S1, 25.2R2. This issue does not affect Junos OS releases before 24.4R1.
Title Junos OS: EX Series, QFX Series: In a VXLAN scenario when specific control protocol packets are received, memory leaks and eventually no traffic is passed
Weaknesses CWE-754
References
Metrics cvssV3_1

{'score': 6.5, 'vector': 'CVSS:3.1/AV:A/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H'}

cvssV4_0

{'score': 7.1, 'vector': '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/AU:Y/RE:M'}


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cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: juniper

Published:

Updated: 2026-04-10T14:10:08.812Z

Reserved: 2026-03-23T19:46:13.669Z

Link: CVE-2026-33781

cve-icon Vulnrichment

Updated: 2026-04-10T14:10:03.940Z

cve-icon NVD

Status : Analyzed

Published: 2026-04-09T22:16:27.193

Modified: 2026-04-17T17:53:32.403

Link: CVE-2026-33781

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No data.

cve-icon OpenCVE Enrichment

Updated: 2026-04-10T09:27:52Z

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