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CVE-2026-21913

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).

On 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.

The following reboot reason can be seen in the output of 'show chassis routing-engine' and as a log message:

  reason=0x4000002 reason_string=0x4000002:watchdog + panic with core dump

This issue affects Junos OS on EX4000-48T, EX4000-48P and EX4000-48MP:

  • 24.4 versions before 24.4R2,
  • 25.2 versions before 25.2R1-S2, 25.2R2.

This issue does not affect versions before 24.4R1 as the first Junos OS version for the EX4000 models was 24.4R1.

  • Published: Jan 15, 2026
  • Updated: Jan 16, 2026
  • CVE: CVE-2026-21913
  • Severity: High
  • Exploit:

CVSS v3:

  • Severity: High
  • Score: 7.5
  • AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

CWEs:

Software From Fixed in
juniper / junos 24.4 24.4.x
juniper / junos 24.4-r1 24.4-r1.x
juniper / junos 24.4-r1-s2 24.4-r1-s2.x
juniper / junos 24.4-r1-s3 24.4-r1-s3.x
juniper / junos 25.2 25.2.x
juniper / junos 25.2-r1 25.2-r1.x
juniper / junos 25.2-r1-s1 25.2-r1-s1.x
juniper / junos 25.2-r2 25.2-r2.x