Is CVE-2026-101979 being exploited?

No public exploit is currently tracked.

How severe is CVE-2026-101979?

CVE-2026-101979 has a CVSS v3 severity of HIGH (8.8).

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CVE-2026-101979

Description

A Stack-based Buffer Overflow vulnerability in the authd Juniper Networks Junos OS and Junos OS Evolved allows a network attacker with SNMP read access to execute code with root privileges or cause a denial of service via a specific SNMP packet, when SNMP and AAA are enabled.