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CVE-2021-31368

24
FAUCET Score

CVE-2021-31368 is an Uncontrolled Resource Consumption vulnerability in Juniper Networks JUNOS OS affecting EX2300, EX3400, and ACX710 series devices. An unauthenticated attacker can cause a sustained Denial of Service (DoS) by flooding the out-of-band management ethernet port, leading to 100% CPU utilization and an unresponsive device. This vulnerability has a CVSS score of 7.5 (HIGH), indicating a network-based attack with low complexity and high impact on availability. There is currently no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code, or significant community discussion surrounding this CVE.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
< 18.1R3-S13CPE match
cpe:2.3:o:juniper:junos:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
>= 18.2, < 18.2R3-S8CPE match
cpe:2.3:o:juniper:junos:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
>= 18.3, < 18.3R3-S5CPE match
cpe:2.3:o:juniper:junos:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
>= 19.1, < 19.1R3-S5CPE match
cpe:2.3:o:juniper:junos:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
>= 20.2, < 20.2R3CPE match
cpe:2.3:o:juniper:junos:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

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
1.05%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
60.7%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-26
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0105 is in the 37th 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 / JSA11230
Vendor Advisory