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CVE-2026-21902

CRITICAL Exploitation: PoC
9.8
CVSS 3.1
Description
An Incorrect Permission Assignment for Critical Resource vulnerability in the On-Box Anomaly detection framework of Juniper Networks Junos OS Evolved on PTX Series allows an unauthenticated, network-based attacker to execute code as root. The On-Box Anomaly detection framework should only be reachable by other internal processes over the internal routing instance, but not over an externally exposed port. With the ability to access and manipulate the service to execute code as root a remote attacker can take complete control of the device. Please note that this service is enabled by default as no specific configuration is required. This issue affects Junos OS Evolved on PTX Series: * 25.4 versions before 25.4R1-S1-EVO, 25.4R2-EVO. This issue does not affect Junos OS Evolved versions before 25.4R1-EVO. This issue does not affect Junos OS.

Metadata

CVE ID
CVE-2026-21902
State
PUBLISHED
Assigner
juniper
Reserved
2026-01-05 17:32 UTC
Published
2026-02-25 16:59 UTC
Last updated
2026-03-04 04:55 UTC
Primary CWE
CWE-732
CWE-732 Incorrect Permission Assignment for Critical Resourc…
Vendor / Product
Juniper Networks / Junos OS Evolved
Sources
cve.org  ·  NVD

Severity & Metrics

9.8 CRITICAL CVSS 3.1
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
SSVC — CISA Coordinator
Exploitation
PoC
Automatable
yes
Tech. Impact
total
Affected products (1)
VendorProductPlatformVersions
Juniper Networks Junos OS Evolved PTX Series 25.4 < 25.4R1-S1-EVO, 25.4R2-EVO, 0 < 25.4R1-EVO
Weakness (CWE)
CWESourceDescription
CWE-732 cna CWE-732 Incorrect Permission Assignment for Critical Resource
CVSS scores (2)
ScoreSeverityVersionSourceVector
9.8 CRITICAL 3.1 cna CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
9.3 CRITICAL 4.0 cna CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:H/VI:H/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:L/AU:Y/R:U/RE:M/U:Red
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