CVE-2026-101994
Junos OS and Junos OS Evolved: Malformed MC-LAG ICCP message causes l2ald heap disclosure or crash
- 7.1HighCVSS base score
- 0.28%Exploitation in 30 daysEPSS · top 80% of all CVEs
- NoKnown exploitednot in CISA's KEV catalog
- NonePublic exploitsnone known yet
Description
An Improper Handling of Length Parameter Inconsistency vulnerability in the l2ald daemon of Juniper Networks Junos OS and Junos OS Evolved allows an attacker who can control or impersonate a configured MC-LAG ICCP peer to disclose process heap memory or cause a denial of service via a malformed ICCP message.
Timeline
ID reserved
By juniper
- 16 days later
· 16 days later
Published
- 2 days later
· 2 days later
Record updated
Changes after publication (a new score, a public exploit, EPSS crossing 1, 10 or 50 %, leaving KEV) are kept since November 2026; earlier ones are not known.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| juniperCNA (assigner) | 4.0 | High7.1 | CVSS:4.0/AV:A/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:L/VI:N/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:L |
| juniperCNA (assigner) | 3.1 | High7.1 | CVSS:3.1/AV:A/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:H |
| NVDNVD · Awaiting Analysis | 4.0 | High7.1 | CVSS:4.0/AV:A/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:L/VI:N/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:L/E:X/CR:X/IR:X/AR:X/MAV:X/MAC:X/MAT:X/MPR:X/MUI:X/MVC:X/MVI:X/MVA:X/MSC:X/MSI:X/MSA:X/S:X/AU:X/R:X/V:X/RE:X/U:X |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 0.28% · top 80% of all CVEs (11 Nov 2026)
- CISA SSVC
- Exploitation: none · Automatable: no · Technical impact: partial
The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: High 7.1.
Affected products
- affected < 23.2R2-S7.7
- affected 23.4 – < 23.4R2-S8.13
- affected 24.2 – < 24.2R2-S5.5
- affected 24.4 – < 24.4R2-S5
- affected 25.2 – < 25.2R2-S2
- affected 25.4 – < 25.4R1-S3
- affected 26.2 – < 26.2R1-S2
Juniper Networks · Junos OS Evolved
- affected < 23.2R2-S7.7-EVO
- affected 23.4 – < 23.4R2-S8.11-EVO
- affected 24.2 – < 24.2R2-S5.6-EVO
- affected 24.4 – < 24.4R2-S5-EVO
- affected 25.2 – < 25.2R2-S2-EVO
- affected 25.4 – < 25.4R1-S3-EVO
- affected 26.2 – < 26.2R1-S2-EVO
- affected 23.4X100
- affected 25.2X100 – < 25.2X100-D35-EVO
- affected 25.4X300 – < 25.4X300-D40-EVO
What to do
Solution: The following software releases have been updated to resolve this specific issue: Junos OS: 23.2R2-S7.7, 23.4R2-S8.13, 24.2R2-S5.5, 24.4R2-S5, 25.2R2-S2, 25.4R1-S3, 25.4R2, 26.2R1-S2, 26.2R2, 26.4R1, and all subsequent releases. Junos OS Evolved: 23.2R2-S7.7-EVO, 23.4R2-S8.11-EVO, 24.2R2-S5.6-EVO, 24.4R2-S5-EVO, 25.2R2-S2-EVO, 25.2X100-D35-EVO, 25.4R1-S3-EVO, 25.4R2-EVO, 25.4X300-D40-EVO, 26.2R1-S2-EVO, 26.2R2-EVO, 26.4R1-EVO, and all subsequent releases. Note: For Junos OS releases 23.2, 23.4, and 24.2, and Junos OS Evolved releases 23.2-EVO, 23.4-EVO, and 24.2-EVO, specific respins have been referenced. Previously published versions of these releases have been rebuilt to resolve the security vulnerabilities identified in this advisory.
Workaround: There are no known workarounds for this issue.
Exploitation: Juniper SIRT is not aware of any malicious exploitation of this vulnerability.
References
References1
Sources
The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.
- CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
- CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
- NVD (opens in a new tab)
- FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
- EUVD EUVD-2026-101477 (opens in a new tab)
- OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
- GitHub Advisories (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
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