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CVE PROGRAM SOURCE RECORD6.0 Medium

CVE-2026-102080

Junos OS: MX Series: Malformed SyncE or PTP clock input causes continuous RE switchover

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Status
Published
Published
Updated
Assigning organization
juniper

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.

Affected products

Version statuses are supplied by the assigning organization. Consult the original record for detailed ranges and platform conditions.

Juniper Networks Junos OS

Default version status: unaffected

  • 0 to < 23.2R2-S7.7affected
  • 23.4 to < 23.4R2-S8.13affected
  • 24.2 to < 24.2R2-S5.5affected
  • 24.4 to < 24.4R2-S4affected
  • 25.2 to < 25.2R2-S1affected
  • 25.4 to < 25.4R1-S2affected

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