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CVE-2021-31374

24
FAUCET Score

CVE-2021-31374 describes a denial-of-service vulnerability in Juniper Networks Junos OS and Junos OS Evolved. A specially crafted BGP UPDATE or KEEPALIVE message can crash the routing process daemon (RPD), leading to a sustained DoS condition affecting both IBGP and EBGP deployments over IPv4 or IPv6. This vulnerability has a CVSSv3 score of 7.5 (HIGH), indicating a network-based attack with low complexity and high impact on availability. There is no evidence of active exploitation, publicly available exploit code, or significant community discussion surrounding this CVE.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
17.3CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:juniper:junos:17.3:-:*:*:*:*:*:*
17.3CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:juniper:junos:17.3:r1:*:*:*:*:*:*
17.3CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:juniper:junos:17.3:r1-s1:*:*:*:*:*:*
17.3CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:juniper:junos:17.3:r1-s4:*:*:*:*:*:*
17.3CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:juniper:junos:17.3:r2:*:*:*:*:*:*

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
0.99%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
58.8%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-27
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0099 is in the 34th percentile among its peer group of 51,551 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 / JSA11239
Vendor Advisory