CVE-2026-102080
Received
Received - Intake
Denial-of-Service in Juniper Networks Junos OS MX Series
Vulnerability report for CVE-2026-102080, including description, CVSS score, EPSS score, affected products, exploitability, helpful resources, and attack-flow context.
Publication date: 2026-10-14
Last updated on: 2026-10-14
Assigner: Juniper Networks, Inc.
Description
Description
An Improper Resource Locking vulnerability in the clock synchronization daemon (clksyncd) of Juniper Networks Junos OS on MX Series allows a unauthenticated, logically adjacent attacker to cause a Denial-of-Service (DoS).
If a SyncE or PTP upstream node sends a malformed message to an MX device equipped with SCBE3, a false 19.44MHz alarm is generated on the master RE. This leads to persistent RE switchovers and a clksyncd process crash. This issue is outside the attacker's direct control as it's a race condition.
This issue affects Junos OS on MX Series:
* All versions before 23.2R2-S7.7;
* 23.4 versions before 23.4R2-S8.13;
* 24.2 versions before 24.2R2-S5.5;
* 24.4 versions before 24.4R2-S4;
* 25.2 versions before 25.2R2-S1;
* 25.4 versions before 25.4R1-S2.
CVSS Scores
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Meta Information
Affected Vendors & Products
| Vendor | Product | Version / Range |
|---|---|---|
| Juniper | Networks | Junos OS 0 |
| Juniper | Networks | Junos OS 23.4 |
| Juniper | Networks | Junos OS 24.2 |
| Juniper | Networks | Junos OS 24.4 |
| Juniper | Networks | Junos OS 25.2 |
| Juniper | Networks | Junos OS 25.4 |
Helpful Resources
Exploitability
CWE
KEV
| CWE ID | Description |
|---|---|
| CWE-413 | The product does not lock or does not correctly lock a resource when the product must have exclusive access to the resource. |
