CVE detail

CVE-2021-0294 — CVE-2021-0294

Published 2021-07-15 · Modified 2026-06-17 · Vendor juniper · Product junos · Source nvd

MEDIUM

severity

CVSS-derived band

5.3

CVSS v3

0–10 scale

0.0095

EPSS probability

exploitation probability, 30d

58.0%

EPSS percentile

percentile vs all CVEs

NOT LISTED

CISA KEV

known exploited catalog

Description

A vulnerability in Juniper Networks Junos OS, which only affects the release 18.4R2-S5, where a function is inconsistently implemented on Juniper Networks Junos QFX5000 Series and EX4600 Series, and if "storm-control enhanced" is configured, can lead to the enhanced storm control filter group not be installed. It will cause storm control not to work hence allowing an attacker to cause high CPU usage or packet loss issues by sending a large amount of broadcast or unknown unicast packets arriving the device. This issue affects Juniper Networks QFX5100, QFX5110, QFX5120, QFX5200, QFX5210, EX4600, and EX4650, and QFX5100 with QFX 5e Series image installed. QFX5130 and QFX5220 are not affected from this issue. This issue affects Juniper Networks Junos OS 18.4R2-S5 on QFX5000 Series and EX4600 S

Remediation

vendor remediation guidance

The following software releases has been updated to resolve this specific issue: Junos OS 18.4R2-S6.

workarounds

There are no viable workarounds for this issue.

Product	Vulnerable range	Fixed version	Advisory
Juniper Networks Junos OS	—	not specified	advisory ↗

References

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