CVE-2026-101981: Junos OS and Junos OS Evolved: An adjacent LDP peer causes routing-engine compromise when LDP is enabled

High severity · published Oct 14, 2026

CVE-2026-101981

Junos OS and Junos OS Evolved: An adjacent LDP peer causes routing-engine compromise when LDP is enabled

8.8

CVSS

0.2%

EPSS

On KEV

Description

A Stack-based Buffer Overflow vulnerability in the routing protocol daemon (rpd) of Juniper Networks Junos OS and Junos OS Evolved allows an unauthenticated adjacent LDP peer to cause an rpd crash or execute arbitrary code via a malformed LDP Label Mapping message.

CVSS vector

CVSS:3.1/AV:A/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Attack vector

Adjacent

Complexity

Low

Privileges

None

User interaction

None

Confidentiality

High

Integrity

High

Availability

High

Scope

Unchanged

Exploitation

Is it being used?

Exploit prediction (EPSS)0.2% · higher than 16% of CVEs

Exploited in the wildNo evidence yet

CISA KEVNot listed

Ransomware campaign useNot known

Affected products

Which versions

Junos OS · Juniper

23.4 before 23.4R2-S8.13; 24.2 before 24.2R2-S5.5; 24.4 before 24.4R2-S5; 25.2 before 25.2R2-S2; 25.4 before 25.4R1-S3; 26.2 before 26.2R1-S2 · source: vendor

Junos OS Evolved · Juniper Networks

23.4 before 23.4R2-S8.11-EVO; 24.2 before 24.2R2-S5.6-EVO; 24.4 before 24.4R2-S5-EVO; 25.2 before 25.2R2-S2-EVO; 25.4 before 25.4R1-S3-EVO; 26.2 before 26.2R1-S2-EVO; +3 more · source: vendor

Affected product

Junos OS

Juniper

All Junos OS CVEs

References

NVD

https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-101981

CVE.org

https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-101981

vendor-advisory

https://supportportal.juniper.net/JSA112187