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:
* 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.
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References
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| https://supportportal.juniper.net/JSA112178 |
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History
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| Description | 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: * 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. | |
| Title | Junos OS: MX Series: Malformed SyncE or PTP clock input causes continuous RE switchover | |
| Weaknesses | CWE-413 | |
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Status: PUBLISHED
Assigner: juniper
Published: 2026-10-14T16:26:30.073Z
Updated: 2026-10-14T20:26:05.796Z
Reserved: 2026-09-28T17:37:38.548Z
Link: CVE-2026-102080
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Status : Awaiting Analysis
Published: 2026-10-14T17:18:03.703
Modified: 2026-10-15T16:24:19.073
Link: CVE-2026-102080
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