GHSA-6HX5-3RJF-RM36
Vulnerability from github – Published: 2026-07-10 00:31 – Updated: 2026-07-10 00:31A Concurrent Execution using Shared Resource with Improper Synchronization ('Race Condition') vulnerability in the packet forwarding engine (PFE) of Juniper Networks Junos OS on SRX Series allows an unauthenticated, network-based attacker to cause a Denial-of-Service (DoS).
As part of the stateful traffic processing on SRX Series devices flows are being established, and removed when not needed anymore. During the removal process the timeout of a flow should be set to 3 seconds and consequentially the flow should be removed shortly after. Due to a race condition occurring when setting the timeout there is a chance (the exact conditions are outside the attackers control) that the timeout is instead set to a very high value of larger than 10,000 seconds:
user@host> show security flow session | match timeout Session ID: 98784248524, Policy name: PROD-FLOW/4, HA State: Active, Timeout: 85250, Session State: Valid
This will lead to an accumulation of flows which can be observed by an ever-increasing value of invalidated sessions in the output of 'show security flow session summary':
user@host> show security flow session summary | match invalid Invalidated sessions: 216931These sessions can't be cleared manually with the 'clear security flow session' command, which will either lead to forwarding to stop (and the system needs to be manually recovered with a reboot) or to a flowd core and automatic reboot.
This issue affects Junos OS on SRX Series:
- 24.2 versions before 24.2R2-S3,
- 24.4 versions before 24.4R2-S1, 24.4R2-S2,
- 25.2 versions before 25.2R1-S2, 25.2R2.
This issue does not affect releases earlier than 24.2R1;
{
"affected": [],
"aliases": [
"CVE-2026-57030"
],
"database_specific": {
"cwe_ids": [
"CWE-362"
],
"github_reviewed": false,
"github_reviewed_at": null,
"nvd_published_at": "2026-07-09T22:17:08Z",
"severity": "HIGH"
},
"details": "A Concurrent Execution using Shared Resource with Improper Synchronization (\u0027Race Condition\u0027) vulnerability in the packet forwarding engine (PFE) of Juniper Networks Junos OS on SRX Series allows an unauthenticated, network-based attacker to cause a Denial-of-Service (DoS).\n\nAs part of the stateful traffic processing on SRX Series devices flows are being established, and removed when not needed anymore. During the removal process the timeout of a flow should be set to 3 seconds and consequentially the flow should be removed shortly after. Due to a race condition occurring when setting the timeout there is a chance (the exact conditions are outside the attackers control) that the timeout is instead set to a very high value of larger than 10,000 seconds:\n\n\n\nuser@host\u003e show security flow session | match timeout\nSession ID: 98784248524, Policy name: PROD-FLOW/4, HA State: Active, Timeout: 85250, Session State: Valid\n\nThis will lead to an accumulation of flows which can be observed by an ever-increasing value of invalidated sessions in the output of \u0027show security flow session summary\u0027:\n\nuser@host\u003e show security flow session summary | match invalid\nInvalidated sessions: 216931These sessions can\u0027t be cleared manually with the \u0027clear security flow session\u0027 command, which will either lead to forwarding to stop (and the system needs to be manually recovered with a reboot) or to a flowd core and automatic reboot.\n\n\nThis issue affects Junos OS on SRX Series:\n\n\n * 24.2 versions before 24.2R2-S3,\n * 24.4 versions before 24.4R2-S1, 24.4R2-S2,\n * 25.2\u00a0versions\u00a0before 25.2R1-S2, 25.2R2.\n\n\n\n\nThis issue does not affect releases earlier than 24.2R1;",
"id": "GHSA-6hx5-3rjf-rm36",
"modified": "2026-07-10T00:31:26Z",
"published": "2026-07-10T00:31:26Z",
"references": [
{
"type": "ADVISORY",
"url": "https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-57030"
},
{
"type": "WEB",
"url": "https://supportportal.juniper.net/JSA110090"
}
],
"schema_version": "1.4.0",
"severity": [
{
"score": "CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H",
"type": "CVSS_V3"
},
{
"score": "CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:P/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:L/E:X/CR:X/IR:X/AR:X/MAV:X/MAC:X/MAT:X/MPR:X/MUI:X/MVC:X/MVI:X/MVA:X/MSC:X/MSI:X/MSA:X/S:X/AU:Y/R:U/V:X/RE:M/U:X",
"type": "CVSS_V4"
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]
}
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