CVE-2026-102083 Junos OS: SRX Series: With WebFiltering enabled prolonged HTTP session load can cause a crash
An unauthenticated attacker can cause a Denial-of-Service on Juniper SRX devices by sending sustained HTTP traffic when WebFiltering is enabled and the cloud server is unreachable.
- Exploited in the wild
- Not known
- Login needed
- Not needed
- Attackable
- Over the internet
- Victim action needed
- Not needed
- Fix
- None listed
What is CVE-2026-102083?
CVE-2026-102083 is a high-severity denial of service vulnerability in Juniper Networks Junos OS, published on 14 Oct 2026. An attacker can exploit it over the internet without logging in, with no action from the victim.
Official description
An Improper Resource Locking vulnerability in the UTM processing of Juniper Networks Junos OS on SRX Series allows an unauthenticated, network-based attacker to cause a Denial-of-Service (DoS).
When UTM WebFiltering is configured and the WebFiltering cloud server is unreachable, sustained HTTP traffic load may cause the UTM subsystem to crash and restart, which will lead to a complete service outage until the system has recovered. When category lookup requests cannot be completed, they accumulate internally. Under high load and specific timing conditions, an invalid internal state can occur during cleanup of pending WebFiltering lookups, resulting in a crash of the UTM process. This issue applies to both NextGeneration WebFiltering (NGWF) and Enhanced WebFiltering (EWF).
This issue affects Junos OS on SRX Series:
* 23.2 versions from 23.2R2 before 23.2R2-S7.7; * 23.4 versions from 23.4R2 before 23.4R2-S8.13; * 24.2 versions before 24.2R2-S5.5; * 24.4 versions before 24.4R2-S4; * 25.2 versions before 25.2R2-S1; * 25.4 versions before 25.4R1-S3, 25.4R2.
Weakness: CWE-413
Which versions are affected by CVE-2026-102083?
How do I fix CVE-2026-102083?
No fix has been published for CVE-2026-102083 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.
Upgrade, then put limits on request size, rate and nesting depth so one client cannot exhaust the service. More about Denial of service.
Is CVE-2026-102083 being exploited?
There is no known exploitation of CVE-2026-102083 in the wild and no public exploit code.
Sources
Also known as GHSA-f3xf-5j84-wp9m.