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CVE-2026-102080

Status: Awaiting AnalysisMedium (6)—
Severity6Medium · CVSS 4.0
Exploitation probability0.18 %higher than 7% of CVEs
Active exploitationNonot in the CISA catalog
Public exploitNot knownno public code found

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:

Technical details traces, logs and code from the original report
  *  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.

CVSS

Base score
6
Version
4.0
Vector
CVSS:4.0/AV:A/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

Exploitation probability (EPSS)

Probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
0.18 %
Percentile among all scored CVEs
7
Score date
10/20/2026

EPSS (Exploit Prediction Scoring System, FIRST) estimates how likely a vulnerability is to be exploited in the wild within 30 days. It complements CVSS (impact) and CISA KEV (confirmed exploitation).

ATT&CK techniques

How this vulnerability is exploited and what the attacker gains, in MITRE ATT&CK terms.

Vector AV:A/PR:N/UI:N (adyacente, sin privilegios ni interacción) y el texto describe caída del proceso clksyncd y reinicios persistentes del RE por un mensaje malformado.

Inferred by our analysis agent from the official description, CVSS vector and CWE, and checked by a supervisor. May contain errors.

ATT&CK mitigations that cover these techniques

Vulnerability ScanningThreat Intelligence ProgramPrivileged Account ManagementNetwork SegmentationFilter Network TrafficDisable or Remove Feature or Program

Affected technologies (1)

⚠ AI-inferred from the description — NVD hasn't analyzed this CVE yet, these aren't verified CPEs.

Juniper — Junos OSAI

CWEs

References

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