High severity · published Oct 14, 2026
CVE-2026-102081
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
7.5
CVSS
0.4%
EPSS
No
On KEV
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.
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Attack vector
Network
Complexity
Low
Privileges
None
User interaction
None
Confidentiality
None
Integrity
None
Availability
High
Scope
Unchanged
Exploitation
Is it being used?
Exploit prediction (EPSS)0.4% · higher than 31% of CVEs
Exploited in the wildNo evidence yet
CISA KEVNot listed
Ransomware campaign useNot known
Affected products
Which versions
JO
Junos OS · Juniper
23.4R2-S3 before 23.4R2-S7; 24.2R2 before 24.2R2-S3; 24.4 before 24.4R2-S3; 25.2 before 25.2R1-S2, 25.2R2 · source: vendor
References
NVD
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-102081
CVE.org
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-102081
vendor-advisory
https://supportportal.juniper.net/JSA112177
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