Description
A Missing Release of Memory after Effective Lifetime vulnerability in the packet forwarding engine (PFE) of Juniper Networks Junos OS on SRX Series allows an unauthenticated, network-based attacker to cause a complete Denial-of-Service (DoS).



On SRX4000 Series, and SRX5000 Series with SPC3, and MX Series with SPC3, when one or more specific application services like ALGs, IDP/DPI, APPID, SECINTEL, AAMW or AppQoE are configured, a high connections per second churn will cause PFE memory to leak. If the memory is exhausted traffic processing will be impacted.

Use the CLI command show security monitoring to monitor the memory utilization of the PFEs on the FPCs.

This issue affects Junos OS on SRX Series and MX Series:


* 23.4 versions from 23.4R2-S3 before 23.4R2-S7;
* 24.2 versions from 24.2R2 before 24.2R2-S3;
* 24.4 versions before 24.4R2-S3;
* 25.2 versions before 25.2R1-S2, 25.2R2.
Published: 2026-10-14
Score: 8.7 High
EPSS: n/a
KEV: No
Impact: n/a
Action: n/a
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Remediation

Vendor Solution

The following software releases have been updated to resolve this specific issue: Junos OS: 23.4R2-S7, 24.2R2-S3, 24.4R2-S3, 25.2R1-S2, 25.2R2, 25.4R1, and all subsequent releases.


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History

Wed, 14 Oct 2026 16:45:00 +0000

Type Values Removed Values Added
Description A Missing Release of Memory after Effective Lifetime vulnerability in the packet forwarding engine (PFE) of Juniper Networks Junos OS on SRX Series allows an unauthenticated, network-based attacker to cause a complete Denial-of-Service (DoS). On SRX4000 Series, and SRX5000 Series with SPC3, and MX Series with SPC3, when one or more specific application services like ALGs, IDP/DPI, APPID, SECINTEL, AAMW or AppQoE are configured, a high connections per second churn will cause PFE memory to leak. If the memory is exhausted traffic processing will be impacted. Use the CLI command show security monitoring to monitor the memory utilization of the PFEs on the FPCs. This issue affects Junos OS on SRX Series and MX Series: * 23.4 versions from 23.4R2-S3 before 23.4R2-S7; * 24.2 versions from 24.2R2 before 24.2R2-S3; * 24.4 versions before 24.4R2-S3; * 25.2 versions before 25.2R1-S2, 25.2R2.
Title Junos OS: SRX4000 Series, SRX5000 Series and MX Series with SPC3: With application services configured, high session churn causes memory leak which will ultimately impact traffic
Weaknesses CWE-401
References
Metrics cvssV3_1

{'score': 7.5, 'vector': 'CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H'}

cvssV4_0

{'score': 8.7, 'vector': 'CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:L/AU:Y/R:U/RE:M'}


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cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: juniper

Published:

Updated: 2026-10-14T16:26:14.921Z

Reserved: 2026-09-28T17:37:38.548Z

Link: CVE-2026-102081

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cve-icon NVD

Status : Received

Published: 2026-10-14T17:18:03.863

Modified: 2026-10-14T17:18:03.863

Link: CVE-2026-102081

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