{"cve":"CVE-2026-21913","nvd":{"published":"2026-01-15T21:16:07.537","modified":"2026-06-17T10:19:08.913","status":"Analyzed","description":"An Incorrect Initialization of Resource vulnerability in the Internal Device Manager (IDM) of Juniper Networks Junos OS on EX4000 models allows an unauthenticated, network-based attacker to cause a Denial-of-Service (DoS).\n\nOn EX4000 models with 48 ports (EX4000-48T, EX4000-48P, EX4000-48MP) a high volume of traffic destined to the device will cause an FXPC crash and restart, which leads to a complete service outage until the device has automatically restarted.\n\n\n\n\nThe following reboot reason can be seen in the output of 'show chassis routing-engine' and as a log message:\n\n  reason=0x4000002 reason_string=0x4000002:watchdog + panic with core dump \n\n\n\n\nThis issue affects Junos OS on EX4000-48T, EX4000-48P and EX4000-48MP:\n\n\n\n  *  24.4 versions before 24.4R2,\n  *  25.2 versions before 25.2R1-S2, 25.2R2.\n\n\n\n\nThis issue does not affect versions before 24.4R1 as the first Junos OS version for the EX4000 models was 24.4R1.","cvss_v4":{"vector":"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/RE:M","score":8.7},"cvss_v3":{"version":"3.1","vector":"CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H","score":7.5},"cwes":["CWE-665"],"references":["https://kb.juniper.net/JSA106014","https://supportportal.juniper.net/JSA106014"],"products":["juniper:junos"],"source":"nvd","synced_at":"2026-10-19T22:19:41.481987139+00:00"},"epss":{"cve":"CVE-2026-21913","score":0.00407,"percentile":0.35004,"date":"2026-11-01"},"kev":null,"osv":[],"attribution":["This product uses the NVD API but is not endorsed or certified by the NVD.","EPSS scores: FIRST Exploit Prediction Scoring System, https://www.first.org/epss","Known exploited vulnerabilities: CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities Catalog, https://www.cisa.gov/known-exploited-vulnerabilities-catalog","Package advisories: OSV (https://osv.dev), from the GitHub Advisory Database, PyPA, Go, RustSec and other ecosystem databases, under CC-BY 4.0 or CC0","CVE records: the CVE Program's CVE List (https://www.cve.org), under its terms of use (https://www.cve.org/Legal/TermsOfUse). CVE is a registered trademark of The MITRE Corporation; this product is not affiliated with the CVE Program."]}