An Access of Uninitialized Pointer vulnerability in the routing protocol daemon (rpd) of Juniper Networks Junos OS and Junos OS Evolved with BGP sharding configured allows an attacker triggering indirect next-hop updates, along with timing outside the attacker's control, to cause rpd to crash and restart, leading to a Denial of Service (DoS).
With BGP sharding enabled, triggering route resolution of an indirect next-hop (e.g., an IGP route change over which a BGP route gets resolved), may cause rpd to crash and restart. An attacker causing continuous IGP route churn, resulting in repeated route re-resolution, will increase the likelihood of triggering this issue, leading to a potentially extended DoS condition.
This issue affects:
Junos OS:
* all versions before 21.4R3-S6,
* from 22.1 before 22.1R3-S6,
* from 22.2 before 22.2R3-S3,
* from 22.3 before 22.3R3-S3,
* from 22.4 before 22.4R3,
* from 23.2 before 23.2R2;
Junos OS Evolved:
* all versions before 22.3R3-S3-EVO,
* from 22.4 before 22.4R3-EVO,
* from 23.2 before 23.2R2-EVO.
Versions before Junos OS 21.3R1 and Junos OS Evolved 21.3R1-EVO are unaffected by this issue.
CVSS Score
5.3
EPSS Score
0.0
Published
2025-10-09
A Buffer Copy without Checking Size of Input vulnerability in the
Session Initialization Protocol (SIP) ALG of Juniper Networks Junos OS on MX Series and SRX Series allows an unauthenticated, network-based attacker to cause a Denial of Service (DoS).
When memory utilization is high, and specific SIP packets are received, flowd/mspmand crashes. While the system recovers automatically, the disruption can significantly impact service stability. Continuous receipt of these specific SIP packets, while high utilization is present, will cause a sustained DoS condition. The utilization is outside the attackers control, so they would not be able to deterministically exploit this.
This issue affects Junos OS on SRX Series and MX Series:
* All versions before 22.4R3-S7,
* from 23.2 before 23.2R2-S4,
* from 23.4 before 23.4R2-S5,
* from 24.2 before 24.2R2.
CVSS Score
5.9
EPSS Score
0.001
Published
2025-10-09
A Use of Incorrect Byte Ordering
vulnerability
in the Routing Protocol Daemon (rpd) of Juniper Networks Junos OS on SRX300 Series allows an unauthenticated, network-based attacker to cause a Denial-of-Service (DoS).
When a BGP update is received over an established BGP session which contains a specific, valid, optional, transitive path attribute, rpd will crash and restart.
This issue affects eBGP and iBGP over IPv4 and IPv6.
This issue affects:
Junos OS:
* 22.1 versions from 22.1R1 before 22.2R3-S4,
* 22.3 versions before 22.3R3-S3,
* 22.4 versions before 22.4R3-S2,
* 23.2 versions before 23.2R2,
* 23.4 versions before 23.4R2.
CVSS Score
7.5
EPSS Score
0.001
Published
2025-07-11
An Improper Check for Unusual or Exceptional Conditions vulnerability in routing protocol daemon (rpd) of Juniper Networks Junos OS and Junos OS Evolved allows an unauthenticated, logically adjacent BGP peer to cause Denial of Service (DoS).
On all Junos OS and Junos OS Evolved platforms, when BGP rib-sharding and update-threading are configured, and a BGP peer flap is done with specific timing, rpd crashes and restarts. Continuous peer flapping at specific time intervals will result in a sustained Denial of Service (DoS) condition.
This issue affects eBGP and iBGP, in both IPv4 and IPv6 implementations. This issue requires a remote attacker to have at least one established BGP session. The issue can occur with or without logical-systems enabled.
This issue affects:
Junos OS:
* All versions before 20.4R3-S8,
* 21.2 versions before 21.2R3-S6,
* 21.3 versions before 21.3R3-S5,
* 21.4 versions before 21.4R3-S4,
* 22.1 versions before 22.1R3-S3,
* 22.2 versions before 22.2R3-S1,
* 22.3 versions before 22.3R3,
* 22.4 versions before 22.4R3.
Junos OS Evolved:
* All versions before 21.2R3-S6-EVO,
* 21.3-EVO versions before 21.3R3-S5-EVO,
* 21.4-EVO versions before 21.4R3-S4-EVO,
* 22.1-EVO versions before 22.1R3-S3-EVO,
* 22.2-EVO versions before :22.2R3-S1-EVO,
* 22.3-EVO versions before 22.3R3-EVO,
* 22.4-EVO versions before 22.4R3-EVO.
CVSS Score
5.3
EPSS Score
0.002
Published
2025-04-09
An Improper Check for Unusual or Exceptional Conditions vulnerability in the pfe (packet forwarding engine) of Juniper Networks Junos OS on MX Series causes a port within a pool to be blocked leading to Denial of Service (DoS).
In a DS-Lite (Dual-Stack Lite) and NAT (Network Address Translation) scenario, when crafted IPv6 traffic is received and prefix-length is set to 56, the ports assigned to the user will not be freed. Eventually, users cannot establish new connections. Affected FPC/PIC need to be manually restarted to recover.
Following is the command to identify the issue:
user@host> show services nat source port-block
Host_IP External_IP Port_Block Ports_Used/ Block_State/
Range Ports_Total Left_Time(s)
2001:: x.x.x.x 58880-59391 256/256*1 Active/- >>>>>>>>port still usedThis issue affects Junos OS on MX Series:
* from 21.2 before 21.2R3-S8,
* from 21.4 before 21.4R3-S7,
* from 22.1 before 22.1R3-S6,
* from 22.2 before 22.2R3-S4,
* from 22.3 before 22.3R3-S3,
* from 22.4 before 22.4R3-S2,
* from 23.2 before 23.2R2-S1,
* from 23.4 before 23.4R1-S2, 23.4R2.
This issue does not affect versions before 20.2R1.
CVSS Score
7.5
EPSS Score
0.004
Published
2025-04-09
A Deadlock vulnerability in the packet forwarding engine (PFE) of Juniper Networks Junos OS on SRX Series allows an unauthenticated, network-based attacker to cause a Denial of Service (DoS).
When a large amount of traffic is processed by ATP Cloud inspection, a deadlock can occur which will result in a PFE crash and restart. Whether the crash occurs, depends on system internal timing that is outside the attackers control.
This issue affects Junos OS on SRX Series:
* All versions before 21.3R3-S1,
* 21.4 versions before 21.4R3,
* 22.1 versions before 22.1R2,
* 22.2 versions before 22.2R1-S2, 22.2R2.
CVSS Score
5.9
EPSS Score
0.003
Published
2024-10-11
An Improper Validation of Specified Type of Input vulnerability in the packet forwarding engine (pfe) Juniper Networks Junos OS on SRX5000 Series allows an unauthenticated, network based attacker to cause a Denial of Service (Dos).
When a non-clustered SRX5000 device receives a specifically malformed packet this will cause a flowd crash and restart.
This issue affects Junos OS:
* 22.1 releases 22.1R1 and later before 22.2R3-S5,
* 22.3 releases before 22.3R3-S4,
* 22.4 releases before 22.4R3-S4,
* 23.2 releases before 23.2R2-S2,
* 23.4 releases before 23.4R2-S1,
* 24.2 releases before 24.2R1-S1, 24.2R2.
Please note that the PR does indicate that earlier versions have been fixed as well, but these won't be adversely impacted by this.
CVSS Score
7.5
EPSS Score
0.002
Published
2024-10-11
A Missing Release of Memory after Effective Lifetime vulnerability in the Packet Forwarding Engine (PFE) of the Juniper Networks Junos OS on the MX Series platforms with Trio-based FPCs allows an unauthenticated, adjacent attacker to cause a Denial of Service (DoS).
In case of channelized Modular Interface Cards (MICs), every physical interface flap operation will leak heap memory. Over a period of time, continuous physical interface flap operations causes local FPC to eventually run out of memory and crash.
Below CLI command can be used to check the memory usage over a period of time:
user@host> show chassis fpc
Temp CPU Utilization (%) CPU Utilization (%) Memory
Utilization (%)
Slot State (C) Total Interrupt 1min 5min
15min DRAM (MB) Heap Buffer
0
Online 43 41
2 2048 49 14
1
Online 43 41
2
2048 49 14
2
Online 43 41
2
2048 49 14
This issue affects Junos OS on MX Series:
* All versions before 21.2R3-S7,
* from 21.4 before 21.4R3-S6,
* from 22.1 before 22.1R3-S5,
* from 22.2 before 22.2R3-S3,
* from 22.3 before 22.3R3-S2,
* from 22.4 before 22.4R3,
* from 23.2 before 23.2R2,
* from 23.4 before 23.4R2.
CVSS Score
6.5
EPSS Score
0.0
Published
2024-10-11
An Improper Handling of Exceptional Conditions vulnerability in the rpd-server of Juniper Networks Junos OS and Junos OS Evolved within cRPD allows an unauthenticated network-based attacker sending crafted TCP traffic to the routing engine (RE) to cause a CPU-based Denial of Service (DoS).
If specially crafted TCP traffic is received by the control plane, or a TCP session terminates unexpectedly, it will cause increased control plane CPU utilization by the rpd-server process.
While not explicitly required, the impact is more severe when RIB sharding is enabled.
Task accounting shows unexpected reads by the RPD Server jobs for shards:
user@junos> show task accounting detail
...
read:RPD Server.0.0.0.0+780.192.168.0.78+48886 TOT:00000003.00379787 MAX:00000000.00080516 RUNS: 233888\
read:RPD Server.0.0.0.0+780.192.168.0.78+49144 TOT:00000004.00007565 MAX:00000000.00080360 RUNS: 233888\
read:RPD Server.0.0.0.0+780.192.168.0.78+49694 TOT:00000003.00600584 MAX:00000000.00080463 RUNS: 233888\
read:RPD Server.0.0.0.0+780.192.168.0.78+50246 TOT:00000004.00346998 MAX:00000000.00080338 RUNS: 233888\
This issue affects:
Junos OS with cRPD:
* All versions before 21.2R3-S8,
* 21.4 before 21.4R3-S7,
* 22.1 before 22.1R3-S6,
* 22.2 before 22.2R3-S4,
* 22.3 before 22.3R3-S3,
* 22.4 before 22.4R3-S2,
* 23.2 before 23.2R2-S2,
* 24.2 before 24.2R2;
Junos OS Evolved with cRPD:
* All versions before 21.4R3-S7-EVO,
* 22.2 before 22.2R3-S4-EVO,
* 22.3 before 22.3R3-S3-EVO,
* 22.4 before 22.4R3-S2-EVO,
* 23.2 before 23.2R2-EVO.
CVSS Score
7.5
EPSS Score
0.0
Published
2024-10-11
An Uncontrolled Resource Consumption vulnerability in the H.323 ALG (Application Layer Gateway) of Juniper Networks Junos OS on SRX Series and MX Series with SPC3 and MS-MPC/MIC, allows an unauthenticated network-based attacker to send specific packets causing traffic loss leading to Denial of Service (DoS).
Continued receipt and processing of these specific packets will sustain the Denial of Service condition.
The memory usage can be monitored using the below command.
user@host> show usp memory segment sha data objcache jsf
This issue affects SRX Series and MX Series with SPC3 and MS-MPC/MIC:
* 20.4 before 20.4R3-S10,
* 21.2 before 21.2R3-S6,
* 21.3 before 21.3R3-S5,
* 21.4 before 21.4R3-S6,
* 22.1 before 22.1R3-S4,
* 22.2 before 22.2R3-S2,
* 22.3 before 22.3R3-S1,
* 22.4 before 22.4R3,
* 23.2 before 23.2R2.
CVSS Score
7.5
EPSS Score
0.005
Published
2024-07-11