Medium (5.5) in juniper junos. EPSS 0.2% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.
A Heap-based Buffer Overflow vulnerability in the Network Services Daemon (NSD) of Juniper Networks Junos OS allows authenticated, low privileged, local attacker to cause a Denial of Service (DoS).
On an SRX 5000 Series device, when executing a specific command repeatedly, memory is corrupted, which leads to a Flow Processing Daemon (flowd) crash.
The NSD process has to be restarted to restore services.
If this issue occurs, it can be checked with the following command:
user@host> request security policies check
The following log message can also be observed:
Error: policies are out of sync for PFE node<number>.fpc<number>.pic<number>.
This issue affects:
Juniper Networks Junos OS on SRX 5000 Series
* All versions earlier than 20.4R3-S6;
* 21.1 versions earlier than 21.1R3-S5;
* 21.2 versions earlier than 21.2R3-S4;
* 21.3 versions earlier than 21.3R3-S3;
* 21.4 versions earlier than 21.4R3-S3;
* 22.1 versions earlier than 22.1R3-S1;
* 22.2 versions earlier than 22.2R3;
* 22.3 versions earlier than 22.3R2.
Severity
CVSS 3.1
5.5 medium
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
EPSS
0.2% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days; higher than 6% of CVEs (scores of 2026-10-31)