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Fencer Vulns
medium 6.5

CVE-2025-21600 json

Junos OS and Junos OS Evolved: With certain BGP options enabled, receipt of specifically malformed BGP update causes RPD crash

published 2025-01-09 21 mo ago modified 2026-06-17 4 mo ago also EUVD-2025-2566

cvss
6.5
version 3.1, CNA
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
0.3%
EPSS 0.3% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 16%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

An Out-of-Bounds Read vulnerability in

the routing protocol daemon (rpd) of

Juniper Networks Junos OS and Junos OS Evolved allows an unauthenticated, logically adjacent BGP peer sending a specifically malformed BGP packet to cause rpd to crash and restart, resulting in a Denial of Service (DoS). Continued receipt and processing of this packet will create a sustained Denial of Service (DoS) condition.

This issue only affects systems configured in either of two ways:

* systems with BGP traceoptions enabled

* systems with BGP family traffic-engineering (BGP-LS) configured

and can be exploited from a directly connected and configured BGP peer.

This issue affects iBGP and eBGP

with

any address family

configured, and both IPv4 and IPv6 are affected by this vulnerability.

This issue affects:

Junos OS:

*

from 21.4 before 21.4R3-S9,  * from 22.2 before 22.2R3-S5,  * from 22.3 before 22.3R3-S4,  * from 22.4 before 22.4R3-S5,  * from 23.2 before 23.2R2-S3,  * from 23.4 before 23.4R2-S3,  * from 24.2 before 24.2R1-S2, 24.2R2;

Junos OS Evolved:

* from 21.4-EVO before 21.4R3-S9-EVO,  * from 22.2-EVO before 22.2R3-S5-EVO,  * from 22.3-EVO before 22.3R3-S4-EVO,  * from 22.4-EVO before 22.4R3-S5-EVO,  * from 23.2-EVO before 23.2R2-S3-EVO,  * from 23.4-EVO before 23.4R2-S2-EVO,  * from 24.2-EVO before 24.2R1-S2-EVO, 24.2R2-EVO.

This issue does not affect versions of Junos OS prior to 21.3R1.

This issue does not affect versions of Junos OS Evolved prior to 21.3R1-EVO.

This is a similar, but different vulnerability than the issue reported as CVE-2024-39516.

Patch / fix

  • Juniper Networks Junos OS 21.4R3-S9, 22.2R3-S5, 22.3R3-S4, 22.4R3-S5, 23.2R2-S3, 23.4R2-S3, 24.2R1-S2, 24.2R2
  • Juniper Networks Junos OS Evolved 21.4R3-S9-EVO, 22.2R3-S5-EVO, 22.3R3-S4-EVO, 22.4R3-S5-EVO, 23.2R2-S3-EVO, 23.4R2-S2-EVO, 24.2R1-S2-EVO, 24.2R2-EVO

CISA SSVC

Exploitation
none
Automatable
no
Technical impact
partial
Assessed
21 mo ago

Exploit prediction

0.25% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 16% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-08).

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
CNA 3.1 6.5 CVSS:3.1/AV:A/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
CNA 4.0 7.1 CVSS:4.0/AV:A/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:L/AU:N/R:A/V:C/RE:M/U:Green
CNA 4.0 7.1 CVSS:4.0/AV:A/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:L/E:X/CR:X/IR:X/AR:X/MAV:X/MAC:X/MAT:X/MPR:X/MUI:X/MVC:X/MVI:X/MVA:X/MSC:X/MSI:X/MSA:X/S:X/AU:N/R:A/V:C/RE:M/U:Green

Affected products

  • Juniper Networks Junos OS
  • Juniper Networks Junos OS Evolved

Classification

Weakness

References

Sources

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