GHSA-3P5V-CHX4-4483
Vulnerability from github – Published: 2026-04-10 00:30 – Updated: 2026-04-10 00:30An Improper Check for Unusual or Exceptional Conditions vulnerability in the packet forwarding engine (pfe) of Juniper Networks Junos OS on MX Series allows an unauthenticated, network-based attacker to bypass the configured firewall filter and access the control-plane of the device.
On MX platforms with
MPC10, MPC11, LC4800 or LC9600
line cards, and MX304, firewall filters applied on a loopback interface lo0.n (where n is a non-0 number) don't get executed when lo0.n is in the global VRF / default routing-instance.
An affected configuration would be:
user@host# show configuration interfaces lo0 | display set set interfaces lo0 unit 1 family inet filter input
where a firewall filter is applied to a non-0 loopback interface, but that loopback interface is not referred to in any routing-instance (RI) configuration, which implies that it's used in the default RI.
The issue can be observed with the CLI command:
user@device> show firewall counter filter
not showing any matches.
This issue affects Junos OS on MX Series:
- all versions before 23.2R2-S6,
- 23.4 versions before 23.4R2-S7,
- 24.2 versions before 24.2R2,
- 24.4 versions before 24.4R2.
{
"affected": [],
"aliases": [
"CVE-2026-33774"
],
"database_specific": {
"cwe_ids": [
"CWE-754"
],
"github_reviewed": false,
"github_reviewed_at": null,
"nvd_published_at": "2026-04-09T22:16:25Z",
"severity": "MODERATE"
},
"details": "An Improper Check for Unusual or Exceptional Conditions vulnerability in the packet forwarding engine (pfe) of Juniper Networks Junos OS on MX Series allows an unauthenticated, network-based attacker to bypass the configured firewall filter and access the control-plane of the device.\n\nOn MX platforms with \n\nMPC10, MPC11, LC4800 or LC9600\n\nline cards, and MX304, firewall filters applied on a loopback interface lo0.n (where n is a non-0 number) don\u0027t get executed when lo0.n is in the global VRF / default routing-instance.\n\n An affected configuration would be:\n\nuser@host# show configuration interfaces lo0 | display set\nset interfaces lo0 unit 1 family inet filter input \u003cfilter-name\u003e\n\nwhere a firewall filter is applied to a non-0 loopback interface, but that loopback interface is not referred to in any routing-instance (RI) configuration, which implies that it\u0027s used in the default RI.\n\nThe issue can be observed with the CLI command:\n\nuser@device\u003e show firewall counter filter \u003cfilter_name\u003e \n\nnot showing any matches.\n\nThis issue affects Junos OS on MX Series:\n\n * all versions before 23.2R2-S6,\n * 23.4 versions before 23.4R2-S7,\n * 24.2 versions before 24.2R2,\n * 24.4 versions before 24.4R2.",
"id": "GHSA-3p5v-chx4-4483",
"modified": "2026-04-10T00:30:29Z",
"published": "2026-04-10T00:30:29Z",
"references": [
{
"type": "ADVISORY",
"url": "https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-33774"
},
{
"type": "WEB",
"url": "https://kb.juniper.net/JSA107865"
}
],
"schema_version": "1.4.0",
"severity": [
{
"score": "CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:N",
"type": "CVSS_V3"
},
{
"score": "CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:L/VI:L/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/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:L/U:X",
"type": "CVSS_V4"
}
]
}
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