An Improper Check for Unusual or Exceptional Conditions vulnerability in the flow daemon (flowd) of Juniper Networks Junos OS on SRX Series allows an attacker sending a specific, malformed ICMPv6 packet to cause the srxpfe process to crash and restart. Continued receipt and processing of these packets will repeatedly crash the srxpfe process and sustain the Denial of Service (DoS) condition.

During NAT64 translation, receipt of a specific, malformed ICMPv6 packet destined to the device will cause the srxpfe process to crash and restart.

This issue cannot be triggered using IPv4 nor other IPv6 traffic.



This issue affects Junos OS on SRX Series:
* all versions before 21.2R3-S10,
* all versions of 21.3,
* from 21.4 before 21.4R3-S12,
* all versions of 22.1,
* from 22.2 before 22.2R3-S8,
* all versions of 22.4,
* from 22.4 before 22.4R3-S9,
* from 23.2 before 23.2R2-S6,
* from 23.4 before 23.4R2-S7,
* from 24.2 before 24.2R2-S3,
* from 24.4 before 24.4R2-S3,
* from 25.2 before 25.2R1-S2, 25.2R2.

Project Subscriptions

Vendors Products
Juniper Networks Subscribe
Junos Os Subscribe
Advisories

No advisories yet.

Fixes

Solution

The following software releases have been updated to resolve this specific issue: Junos OS: 21.2R3-S10, 21.4R3-S12, 22.4R3-S9, 23.2R2-S6, 23.4R2-S7, 24.2R2-S3, 24.4R2-S3, 25.2R1-S2, 25.2R2, 25.4R1, and all subsequent releases.


Workaround

There are no known workarounds for this issue.

References
History

Fri, 10 Apr 2026 09:00:00 +0000

Type Values Removed Values Added
First Time appeared Juniper Networks
Juniper Networks junos Os
Vendors & Products Juniper Networks
Juniper Networks junos Os

Thu, 09 Apr 2026 22:00:00 +0000

Type Values Removed Values Added
Description An Improper Check for Unusual or Exceptional Conditions vulnerability in the flow daemon (flowd) of Juniper Networks Junos OS on SRX Series allows an attacker sending a specific, malformed ICMPv6 packet to cause the srxpfe process to crash and restart. Continued receipt and processing of these packets will repeatedly crash the srxpfe process and sustain the Denial of Service (DoS) condition. During NAT64 translation, receipt of a specific, malformed ICMPv6 packet destined to the device will cause the srxpfe process to crash and restart. This issue cannot be triggered using IPv4 nor other IPv6 traffic. This issue affects Junos OS on SRX Series: * all versions before 21.2R3-S10, * all versions of 21.3, * from 21.4 before 21.4R3-S12, * all versions of 22.1, * from 22.2 before 22.2R3-S8, * all versions of 22.4, * from 22.4 before 22.4R3-S9, * from 23.2 before 23.2R2-S6, * from 23.4 before 23.4R2-S7, * from 24.2 before 24.2R2-S3, * from 24.4 before 24.4R2-S3, * from 25.2 before 25.2R1-S2, 25.2R2.
Title Junos OS: SRX Series: In a NAT64 configuration, receipt of a specific, malformed ICMPv6 packet will cause the srxpfe process to crash and restart.
Weaknesses CWE-754
References
Metrics cvssV3_1

{'score': 7.5, 'vector': 'CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H'}

cvssV4_0

{'score': 8.7, 'vector': 'CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:L/AU:Y/R:A/V:C/RE:M/U:Amber'}


Projects

Sign in to view the affected projects.

cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: juniper

Published:

Updated: 2026-04-09T21:38:08.493Z

Reserved: 2026-03-23T19:46:13.672Z

Link: CVE-2026-33790

cve-icon Vulnrichment

No data.

cve-icon NVD

Status : Received

Published: 2026-04-09T22:16:28.803

Modified: 2026-04-09T22:16:28.803

Link: CVE-2026-33790

cve-icon Redhat

No data.

cve-icon OpenCVE Enrichment

Updated: 2026-04-10T09:27:47Z

Weaknesses