CVE Catalog

CVE-2026-101970

MediumCVSS 6.5
Published: Updated: Translated: NVD NIST

Exploitation Probability (EPSS)

Low risk
0.27%

18th percentile - higher than 18% of all known CVEs

Summary

A Use After Free vulnerability in the rpd PIM Join/Prune processing of Juniper Networks Junos OS and Junos OS Evolved platforms allows an unauthenticated adjacent attacker to crash the routing daemon via specific PIM messages when sparse mode PIM is configured.

Risk Assessment

An attacker on an adjacent network can crash the routing daemon, causing an outage of multicast and network services.

Recommendation

Update Junos OS / Junos OS Evolved to a fixed release and restrict access to interfaces with PIM sparse mode enabled.

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Original NVD description (English source)

A Use After Free vulnerability in the rpd PIM Join/Prune processing of Juniper Networks Junos OS and Junos OS Evolved platforms allows an unauthenticated adjacent attacker to crash the routing daemon via specific PIM messages when sparse mode PIM is configured.

Vulnerability data from NVD (NIST) · CISA KEV · EPSS