CVE-2026-21921: Junos OS and Junos OS Evolved: When telemetry collectors are frequently subscribing and unsubscribing to sensors chassisd or rpd will crash
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.
Metrics
- CVSS v4.0
- 7.1
- Severity
- HIGH
- Fixed in
- 22.4R3-S8
- Affected Products
- 2
Fix available
- Juniper Networks / Junos OS< 22.4R3-S8 (from 0) · < 23.2R2-S5 (from 23.2) · < 23.4R2 (from 23.4)
- Juniper Networks / Junos OS Evolved< 22.4R3-S8-EVO (from 0) · < 23.2R2-S5-EVO (from 23.2) · < 23.4R2-EVO (from 23.4)
CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:L/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:L/AU:Y/R:A/RE:M