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CVE-2021-0233

25
FAUCET Score

CVE-2021-0233 is a Denial of Service (DoS) vulnerability in Juniper Networks Junos OS affecting ACX500 and ACX4000 Series devices running versions prior to 17.4R3-S2. An unauthenticated attacker can remotely trigger a Forwarding Engine Board (FFEB) crash by sending a high rate of specific packets, sustaining the DoS condition with continued receipt. With a CVSS score of 7.5 (HIGH), this vulnerability is easily exploitable over the network with low attack complexity, leading to a complete loss of availability. There is currently no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB), or significant community discussion or media coverage.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
>= 17.4, < 17.4R3-S2CPE match
cpe:2.3:o:juniper:junos:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
17.4CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:juniper:junos:17.4:-:*:*:*:*:*:*
17.4CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:juniper:junos:17.4:r1:*:*:*:*:*:*
17.4CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:juniper:junos:17.4:r1-s1:*:*:*:*:*:*
17.4CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:juniper:junos:17.4:r1-s2:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 3.1

7.5HIGH

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Attack Vector
NETWORK
Attack Complexity
LOW
Privileges Required
NONE
User Interaction
NONE
Scope
UNCHANGED
Confidentiality Impact
NONE
Integrity Impact
NONE
Availability Impact
HIGH
Exploitability Score
3.9
Impact Score
3.6
CvssVersion
3.1

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
0.96%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
57.9%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-25
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0096 is in the 32nd percentile among its peer group of 51,485 CVEs.

Social Chatter

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.0 Reddit, 0.1 Bluesky, 0.1 Mastodon, and 0.4 GitHub mentions.

Media Mentions

No media coverage found for this CVE.

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.1 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.

Remediation

Vendor Patches (1)

junipervendor investigatingvia nvd_reference
View patch

References

kb.juniper.net / JSA11128
Vendor Advisory