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
6.0
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
8.2
EPSS Score
0.001
Published
2025-10-09
An Improper Neutralization of Special Elements used in an OS Command ('OS Command Injection') vulnerability in the CLI of Juniper Networks Junos OS and Junos OS Evolved allows a high privileged, local attacker to escalated their privileges to root.
When a user provides specifically crafted arguments to the 'request system logout' command, these will be executed as root on the shell, which can completely compromise the device.
This issue affects:
Junos OS:
* all versions before 21.2R3-S9,
* 21.4 versions before 21.4R3-S8,
* 22.2 versions before 22.2R3-S6,
* 22.3 versions before 22.3R3-S3,
* 22.4 versions before 22.4R3-S6,
* 23.2 versions before 23.2R2-S1,
* 23.4 versions before 23.4R1-S2, 23.4R2;
Junos OS Evolved:
* all versions before 22.4R3-S6-EVO,
* 23.2-EVO versions before 23.2R2-S1-EVO,
* 23.4-EVO versions before 23.4R1-S2-EVO, 23.4R2-EVO.
CVSS Score
8.4
EPSS Score
0.0
Published
2025-07-11
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
8.7
EPSS Score
0.001
Published
2025-07-11
A Reachable Assertion vulnerability in the Routing Protocol Daemon (rpd) of Juniper Networks Junos OS and Junos OS Evolved allows an unauthenticated, network-based attacker to cause a Denial of Service (DoS).
When the device receives a specific BGP UPDATE packet, the rpd crashes and restarts. Continuous receipt of this specific packet will cause a sustained DoS condition.
For the issue to occur, BGP multipath with "pause-computation-during-churn" must be configured on the device, and the attacker must send the paths via a BGP UPDATE from a established BGP peer.
This issue affects:
Junos OS:
* All versions before 21.4R3-S7,
* from 22.3 before 22.3R3-S3,
* from 22.4 before 22.4R3-S5,
* from 23.2 before 23.2R2,
* from 23.4 before 23.4R2.
Junos OS Evolved:
* All versions before 21.4R3-S7-EVO,
* from 22.3 before 22.3R3-S3-EVO,
* from 22.4 before 22.4R3-S5-EVO,
* from 23.2 before 23.2R2-EVO,
* from 23.4 before 23.4R2-EVO.
CVSS Score
7.1
EPSS Score
0.0
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
6.0
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
8.7
EPSS Score
0.004
Published
2025-04-09
A Missing Release of Memory after Effective Lifetime vulnerability in the Packet Forwarding Engine (PFE) of Juniper Networks Junos OS and Junos OS Evolved allows an adjacent, unauthenticated attacker to cause an FPC to crash, leading to Denial of Service (DoS).
On all Junos OS and Junos OS Evolved platforms, in an EVPN-VXLAN scenario, when specific ARP packets are received on an IPv4 network, or specific NDP packets are received on an IPv6 network, kernel heap memory leaks, which eventually leads to an FPC crash and restart.
This issue does not affect MX Series platforms.
Heap size growth on FPC can be seen using below command.
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 45 3 0 2 2 2 32768 19 0 <<<<<<< Heap increase in all fPCs
This issue affects Junos OS:
* All versions before 21.2R3-S7,
* 21.4 versions before 21.4R3-S4,
* 22.2 versions before 22.2R3-S1,
* 22.3 versions before 22.3R3-S1,
* 22.4 versions before 22.4R2-S2, 22.4R3.
and Junos OS Evolved:
* All versions before 21.2R3-S7-EVO,
* 21.4-EVO versions before 21.4R3-S4-EVO,
* 22.2-EVO versions before 22.2R3-S1-EVO,
* 22.3-EVO versions before 22.3R3-S1-EVO,
* 22.4-EVO versions before 22.4R3-EVO.
CVSS Score
7.1
EPSS Score
0.001
Published
2025-04-09
This is a similar, but different vulnerability than the issue reported as CVE-2024-39549.
A double-free vulnerability in the routing process daemon (rpd) of Juniper Networks Junos OS and Junos OS Evolved allows an attacker to send a malformed BGP Path attribute update which allocates memory used to log the bad path attribute. This double free of memory is causing an rpd crash, leading to a Denial of Service (DoS).
This issue affects:
Junos OS: * from 22.4 before 22.4R3-S4.
Junos OS Evolved: * from 22.4 before 22.4R3-S4-EVO.
CVSS Score
8.7
EPSS Score
0.003
Published
2025-02-05
An Out-of-bounds Read vulnerability in Juniper Networks Junos OS and Junos OS Evolved's routing protocol daemon (rpd) allows an unauthenticated, network-based attacker to send malformed BGP packets to a device configured with packet receive trace options enabled to crash rpd.
This issue affects:
Junos OS:
* from 21.2R3-S8 before 21.2R3-S9,
* from 21.4R3-S7 before 21.4R3-S9,
* from 22.2R3-S4 before 22.2R3-S5,
* from 22.3R3-S2 before 22.3R3-S4,
* from 22.4R3 before 22.4R3-S5,
* from 23.2R2 before 23.2R2-S2,
* from 23.4R1 before 23.4R2-S1,
* from 24.2R1 before 24.2R1-S1, 24.2R2.
Junos OS Evolved:
* from 21.4R3-S7-EVO before 21.4R3-S9-EVO,
* from 22.2R3-S4-EVO before 22.2R3-S5-EVO,
* from 22.3R3-S2-EVO before 22.3R3-S4-EVO,
* from 22.4R3-EVO before 22.4R3-S5-EVO,
* from 23.2R2-EVO before 23.2R2-S2-EVO,
* from 23.4R1-EVO before 23.4R2-S1-EVO,
* from 24.2R1-EVO before 24.2R1-S2-EVO, 24.2R2-EVO.
This issue requires a BGP session to be established.
This issue can propagate and multiply through multiple ASes until reaching vulnerable devices.
This issue affects iBGP and eBGP.
This issue affects IPv4 and IPv6.
An indicator of compromise may be the presence of malformed update messages in a neighboring AS which is unaffected by this issue:
For example, by issuing the command on the neighboring device:
show log messages
Reviewing for similar messages from devices within proximity to each other may indicate this malformed packet is propagating:
rpd[<pid>]: Received malformed update from <IP address> (External AS <AS#>)
and
rpd[<pid>]: Malformed Attribute
CVSS Score
8.2
EPSS Score
0.004
Published
2025-01-09