CVE-2026-21918

High

Description

A Double Free vulnerability in the flow processing daemon (flowd) of Juniper Networks Junos OS on SRX and MX Series allows an unauthenticated, network-based attacker to cause a Denial-of-Service (DoS). On all SRX and MX Series platforms, when during TCP session establishment a specific sequence of packets is encountered a double free happens. This causes flowd to crash and the respective FPC to restart. This issue affects Junos OS on SRX and MX Series: * all versions before 22.4R3-S7, * 23.2 versions before 23.2R2-S3, * 23.4 versions before 23.4R2-S4, * 24.2 versions before 24.2R2.

SeverityHigh
CVSS7.5
Exploit probability—
ProductJuniper Junos
PublishedJan 15, 2026
First seenJan 15, 2026
Weakness typeCWE-415CWE-415

How to fix

Update
  • juniper junos22.4 or later

Affected products

ProductAffected versionsFixed in
juniper junosv < 22.4, 22.4, 23.2, 23.4, 24.222.4

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