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🛡️ CVE-2026-57023 — junos

🟠 CVSS 7.5 — High ✅ No Known Exploit CWE-1284 NVD
7.5
CVSS Score
0 Low4 Medium7 High9 Critical10

Description

An Improper Validation of Specified Quantity in Input vulnerability in the TCP proxy plugin of Juniper Networks Junos OS on MX Series with SPC3, and SRX Series allows an unauthenticated, network-based attacker to cause a complete Denial of Service (DoS).

When TCP proxy is engaged in a flow session, to support ALGs, Advanced Anti-Malware, ICAP or UTM, a TCP packet with specifically malformed TCP header will cause flow processing daemon (flowd) to crash and restart. This causes a complete service outage until the system has automatically recovered.

This issue affects Junos OS on MX with SPC3, and SRX Series: 

  • 23.4 versions before 23.4R2-S7, 
  • 24.2 versions before 24.2R2-S4, 
  • 24.4 versions before 24.4R2-S3,
  • 25.2 versions before 25.2R2.

This issue does not affect releases before 23.4R1.

How this vulnerability can be exploited

This issue can be reached over the network, attack complexity is low, an attacker needs no privileges on the target. No user interaction is required. The scope is unchanged, so the impact stays within the vulnerable component. Rated impact: confidentiality none, integrity none, availability high.

CVSS metrics in full

The score comes from this vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

  • Attack vector: Network — reachable from anywhere that can route to the service.
  • Attack complexity: Low — the attack works reliably, with no preparation.
  • Privileges required: None — an unauthenticated stranger can try it.
  • User interaction: None — nobody has to be tricked into anything.
  • Scope: Unchanged — the damage stays inside the vulnerable component.
  • Confidentiality impact: None.
  • Integrity impact: None.
  • Availability impact: High — total loss, or loss the attacker controls.

Weakness class

CVE-2026-57023 is classified as CWE-1284: Improper Validation of Specified Quantity in Input. The product receives input that is expected to specify a quantity (such as size or length), but it does not validate or incorrectly validates that the quantity has the required properties.

Affected software

CVE-2026-57023 is recorded against 1 package.

  • junos

Timeline and source

Published on 9 July 2026 and last revised on 14 July 2026. No public exploit is currently recorded for this entry. Record sourced from NVD.

References

supportportal.juniper.net

Other advisories for this package

junos has other advisories on record. If you are patching this one, these are worth checking on the same host:

Same weakness in other software

These advisories are the same class of weakness (CWE-1284: Improper Validation of Specified Quantity in Input) in other software:

Details

Severity HIGH
CVSS Score 7.5
CVSS Vector CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
CWE CWE-1284
Public Exploit ✅ No
Source NVD
Published 2026-07-09
Updated 2026-08-20
Modified 2026-07-14
Fix URL N/A

Affected Packages

Software From version Fixed in
junos — —

References

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