CVE-2026-101960 (GCVE-0-2026-101960)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2026-10-14 16:14
Modified
2026-10-14 20:26
Severity ?
6.5 (Medium) - CVSS:3.1/AV:A/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
7.1 (High) - CVSS:4.0/AV:A/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:L
CWE
Summary
An Out-of-bounds Write vulnerability in the routing protocol daemon (rpd) of Juniper Networks Junos OS Evolved on QFX5240, QFX5241 and QFX5250 configured for BGP global-load-balancing and more than 128 ecmp next-hops allows an attacker to cause an rpd crash.
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
Juniper Networks Junos OS Evolved Version: 23.4   < 23.4R2-S8.11-EVO
Version: 24.2   < 24.2R2-S5.6-EVO
Version: 24.4   < 24.4R2-S5-EVO
Version: 25.2   < 25.2R2-S2-EVO
Version: 25.4   < 25.4R1-S3-EVO
Version: 26.2   < 26.2R1-S2-EVO
Version: 23.4X100   <
Version: 25.2X100   < 25.2X100-D35-EVO
Version: 25.4X300   < 25.4X300-D40-EVO
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