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Exploitation unknown; this catalogue does not assess exploitation.

## Source facts (JSON-quoted data)
CNA source text (English)
id: "CVE-2021-31369"
idYear: 2021
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2021-10-19T18:17:00.367Z"
updatedAt: "2024-09-16T18:34:11.661Z"
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-2021-31369"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2021-31369.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2021-31369"
title: "Junos OS: MX Series: Traffic drops will be observed if MS-MPC/MS-PIC resources are consumed by certain traffic causing a partial DoS"
summary: "On MX Series platforms with MS-MPC/MS-MIC, an Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling vulnerability in Juniper Networks Junos OS allows an unauthenticated network attacker to cause a partial Denial of Service (DoS) with a high rate of specific traffic. If a Class of Service (CoS) rule is attached to the service-set and a high rate of specific traffic is processed by this service-set, for some of the other traffic which has services applied and is being processed by this MS-MPC/MS-MIC drops will be observed. Continued receipted of this high rate of specific traffic will create a sustained Denial of Service (DoS) condition. This issue affects: Juniper Networks Junos OS on MX Series with MS-MPC/MS-MIC: All versions prior to 17.4R3-S5; 18.3 versions prior to 18.3R3-S5; 18.4 versions prior to 18.4R3-S9; 19.1 versions prior to 19.1R3-S6; 19.2 versions prior to 19.2R1-S7, 19.2R3-S3; 19.3 versions prior to 19.3R2-S7, 19.3R3-S3; 19.4 versions prior to 19.4R3-S5; 20.1 versions prior to 20.1R2-S2, 20.1R3-S1; 20.2 versions prior to 20.2R3-S2; 20.3 versions prior to 20.3R3; 20.4 versions prior to 20.4R2-S1, 20.4R3; 21.1 versions prior to 21.1R1-S1, 21.1R2."
affected: [{"versions":[{"version":"unspecified","status":"affected","versionType":"custom","lessThan":"17.4R3-S5"},{"version":"18.3","status":"affected","versionType":"custom","lessThan":"18.3R3-S5"},{"version":"18.4","status":"affected","versionType":"custom","lessThan":"18.4R3-S9"},{"version":"19.1","status":"affected","versionType":"custom","lessThan":"19.1R3-S6"},{"version":"19.2","status":"affected","versionType":"custom","lessThan":"19.2R1-S7, 19.2R3-S3"},{"version":"19.3","status":"affected","versionType":"custom","lessThan":"19.3R2-S7, 19.3R3-S3"},{"version":"19.4","status":"affected","versionType":"custom","lessThan":"19.4R3-S5"},{"version":"20.1","status":"affected","versionType":"custom","lessThan":"20.1R2-S2, 20.1R3-S1"},{"version":"20.2","status":"affected","versionType":"custom","lessThan":"20.2R3-S2"},{"version":"20.3","status":"affected","versionType":"custom","lessThan":"20.3R3"},{"version":"20.4","status":"affected","versionType":"custom","lessThan":"20.4R2-S1, 20.4R3"},{"version":"21.1","status":"affected","versionType":"custom","lessThan":"21.1R1-S1, 21.1R2"}],"vendor":"Juniper Networks","product":"Junos OS","platforms":["MX Series"]}]

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