Vulnerability in Juniper IKE daemon (iked) of (CVE-2026-57024)
Summary
Vulnerability in Juniper IKE daemon (iked) of (CVE-2026-57024). Risk of unauthorized operations or information disclosure.
Original description
The description as published by the source.
A Use of Multiple Resources with Duplicate Identifier vulnerability in the IKE daemon (iked) of Juniper Networks Junos OS on MX with SPC3 and SRX Series allows an unauthenticated, network-based attacker to cause a Denial-of-Service (DoS).
On an MX with SPC3 and SRX devices configured for VPN service, when a large number of VPN negotiations fail a peer index rollover will eventually occur. As a result, new peers are assigned index values that are already in use and the iked process starts to crash repeatedly. This results in failure to establish new VPN connections and rekeying existing ones. To restore service the system must be rebooted.
Please note that the index value can't be monitored, so customers should monitor tunnel up and down events and if a lot of events occur over an extended period of time it becomes likely that this issue occurs.
To be exposed to this issue the system needs to run iked (vs. kmd which is not affected), which can be verified with:
user@host> show system processes extensive | match "KMD|IKED"
This issue affects Junos OS on MX with SPC3, SRX Series:
- all versions before 23.2R2-S7,
- 23.4 versions before 23.4R2-S6,
- 24.2 versions before 24.2R2-S3,
- 24.4 versions before 24.4R2-S4,
- 25.2 versions before 25.2R1-S1.
Source: NIST National Vulnerability Database NVD GitHub Advisory
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A vulnerability tracked as CVE-2026-57024 has been found in Juniper IKE daemon (iked) of.
Risk of unauthorized operations or information disclosure. CVSS score: 5.3/10.
What to do: apply the vendor's official patched release.
If unsure, ask your IT team or search "Juniper IKE daemon (iked) of CVE-2026-57024" on the vendor's site.
CVE-2026-57024 (Juniper IKE daemon (iked) of) — CWE-694 / CVSS v3 5.3
Attack vector: remote (network-reachable) / unauthenticated / no user interaction
Plan: 1) Audit SBOM/dependencies, 2) Stage→prod upgrade, 3) Add WAF/proxy monitoring on affected endpoints, 4) Hunt IOCs in logs.
Refs: see the GHSA / vendor advisory / patched release linked on this page.
A vulnerability (CWE-694) exists in Juniper IKE daemon (iked) of.
Check the vendor advisory for the affected versions of Juniper IKE daemon (iked) of.
Severity: Medium (CVSS 5.3/10). Risk of unauthorized operations or information disclosure.
Update to the patched release per vendor advisory.
Until the patch is applied: disable the affected feature, apply WAF rules, or restrict access via network ACLs.
Search webserver/proxy logs for unusual request patterns matching this CVE's known IOCs. Audit SBOM/dependencies to find affected services.
Response actions
Concrete steps and command examples for SOC/SRE teams to execute in order
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1Identify exposure identify
Audit SBOM/dependencies for affected components.資産台帳・SBOM・依存マニフェストで Juniper IKE daemon (iked) of を使っているサービスとバージョンを洗い出す。
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2Post-deployment verification verify
Confirm patched version is live in productionパッチ適用後、ステージングで PoC または同等の悪用パターンを再現して脆弱性が閉じたことを確認。本番ではアクセスログ・WAF でアラート再発が無いか継続監視。
References
- patch sirt@juniper.net
- web nvd.nist.gov
- web github.com