# cveboard — Historical CVE brief

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Exploitation unknown; this catalogue does not assess exploitation.

## Source facts (JSON-quoted data)
CNA source text (English)
id: "CVE-2021-31367"
idYear: 2021
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2021-10-19T18:16:57.222Z"
updatedAt: "2024-09-16T21:08:03.116Z"
importedAt: "2026-10-24T01:56:32.228Z"
snapshot: {"id":"cve_2026-10-24_midnight_baseline","at":"2026-10-24T00:00:00.000Z","source":"https://github.com/CVEProject/cvelistV5/releases/tag/cve_2026-10-24_0100Z"}
url: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2021-31367"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2021-31367.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2021-31367"
title: "Junos OS: PTX Series: An FPC heap memory leak will be triggered by certain Flowspec route operations which can lead to an FPC crash"
summary: "A Missing Release of Memory after Effective Lifetime vulnerability in the Packet Forwarding Engine (PFE) of Juniper Networks Junos OS on PTX Series allows an adjacent attacker to cause a Denial of Service (DoS) by sending genuine BGP flowspec packets which cause an FPC heap memory leak. Once having run out of memory the FPC will crash and restart along with a core dump. Continued receipted of these packets will create a sustained Denial of Service (DoS) condition. This issue affects: Juniper Networks Junos OS All versions prior to 18.4R3-S9; 19.1 versions prior to 19.1R3-S7; 19.2 versions prior to 19.2R1-S7, 19.2R3-S3; 19.3 versions prior to 19.3R2-S6, 19.3R3-S3; 19.4 versions prior to 19.4R1-S4, 19.4R3-S6; 20.1 versions prior to 20.1R2-S2, 20.1R3; 20.2 versions prior to 20.2R3-S1; 20.3 versions prior to 20.3R3; 20.4 versions prior to 20.4R3; 21.1 versions prior to 21.1R2. Juniper Networks Junos Evolved is not affected."
affected: [{"versions":[{"version":"unspecified","status":"affected","versionType":"custom","lessThan":"18.4R3-S9"},{"version":"19.1","status":"affected","versionType":"custom","lessThan":"19.1R3-S7"},{"version":"19.2","status":"affected","versionType":"custom","lessThan":"19.2R1-S7, 19.2R3-S3"},{"version":"19.3","status":"affected","versionType":"custom","lessThan":"19.3R2-S6, 19.3R3-S3"},{"version":"19.4","status":"affected","versionType":"custom","lessThan":"19.4R1-S4, 19.4R3-S6"},{"version":"20.1","status":"affected","versionType":"custom","lessThan":"20.1R2-S2, 20.1R3"},{"version":"20.2","status":"affected","versionType":"custom","lessThan":"20.2R3-S1"},{"version":"20.3","status":"affected","versionType":"custom","lessThan":"20.3R3"},{"version":"20.4","status":"affected","versionType":"custom","lessThan":"20.4R3"},{"version":"21.1","status":"affected","versionType":"custom","lessThan":"21.1R2"}],"vendor":"Juniper Networks","product":"Junos OS","platforms":["PTX Series"]}]

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