Medium severity · published Apr 9, 2026
CVE-2026-33783
Junos OS Evolved: PTX Series: If SRTE tunnels provisioned via PCEP are present and specific gRPC queries are received evo-aftmand crashes
6.5
CVSS
0.2%
EPSS
No
On KEV
Description
A Function Call With Incorrect Argument Type vulnerability in the sensor interface of Juniper Networks Junos OS Evolved on PTX Series allows a network-based, authenticated attacker with low privileges to cause a complete Denial of Service (DoS).
If colored SRTE policy tunnels are provisioned via PCEP, and gRPC is used to monitor traffic in these tunnels, evo-aftmand crashes and doesn't restart which leads to a complete and persistent service impact. The system has to be manually restarted to recover. The issue is seen only when the Originator ASN field in PCEP contains a value larger than 65,535 (32-bit ASN). The issue is not reproducible when SRTE policy tunnels are statically configured.
This issue affects Junos OS Evolved on PTX Series:
* all versions before 22.4R3-S9-EVO,
* 23.2 versions before 23.2R2-S6-EVO,
* 23.4 versions before 23.4R2-S7-EVO,
* 24.2 versions before 24.2R2-S4-EVO,
* 24.4 versions before 24.4R2-S2-EVO,
* 25.2 versions before 25.2R1-S2-EVO, 25.2R2-EVO.
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Attack vector
Network
Complexity
Low
Privileges
Low
User interaction
None
Confidentiality
None
Integrity
None
Availability
High
Scope
Unchanged
Exploitation
Is it being used?
Exploit prediction (EPSS)0.2% · higher than 15% of CVEs
Exploited in the wildNo evidence yet
CISA KEVNot listed
Ransomware campaign useNot known
Affected products
Which versions
JO
Junos OS Evolved · Juniper Networks
before 22.4R3-S9-EVO; 23.2 before 23.2R2-S6-EVO; 23.4 before 23.4R2-S7-EVO; 24.2 before 24.2R2-S4-EVO; 24.4 before 24.4R2-S2-EVO; 25.2 before 25.2R1-S2-EVO, 25.2R2-EVO · source: vendor, NVD
References
NVD
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-33783
CVE.org
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-33783
Mitigation
https://kb.juniper.net/JSA107870
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