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CVE-2025-21602

Junos OS and Junos OS Evolved: Receipt of specially crafted BGP update packet causes RPD crash



Description

An Improper Handling of Exceptional Conditions vulnerability in the routing protocol daemon (rpd) of Juniper Networks Junos OS and Junos OS Evolved allows an unauthenticated adjacent attacker sending a specific BGP update packet to cause rpd to crash and restart, resulting in a Denial of Service (DoS). Continuous receipt and processing of this packet will create a sustained Denial of Service (DoS) condition. This issue affects iBGP and eBGP, 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;  This issue does not affect versions prior to 21.1R1. Junos OS Evolved:  * from 21.4 before 21.4R3-S9-EVO,  * from 22.2 before 22.2R3-S5-EVO,  * from 22.3 before 22.3R3-S4-EVO, * from 22.4 before 22.4R3-S5-EVO,  * from 23.2 before 23.2R2-S3-EVO,  * from 23.4 before 23.4R2-S3-EVO,  * from 24.2 before 24.2R1-S2-EVO, 24.2R2-EVO. This issue does not affect versions prior to 21.1R1-EVO

Reserved 2024-12-26 | Published 2025-01-09 | Updated 2025-01-09 | Assigner juniper


MEDIUM: 6.5CVSS:3.1/AV:A/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

HIGH: 7.1CVSS: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

Problem types

CWE-755 Improper Handling of Exceptional Conditions

Product status

Default status
unaffected

21.4 before 21.4R3-S9
affected

22.2 before 22.2R3-S5
affected

22.3 before 22.3R3-S4
affected

22.4 before 22.4R3-S5
affected

23.2 before 23.2R2-S3
affected

23.4 before 23.4R2-S3
affected

24.2 before 24.2R1-S2, 24.2R2
affected

Any version before 21.3R1
unaffected

Default status
unaffected

21.4 before 21.4R3-S9-EVO
affected

22.2 before 22.2R3-S5-EVO
affected

22.3 before 22.3R3-S4-EVO
affected

22.4 before 22.4R3-S5-EVO
affected

23.2 before 23.2R2-S3-EVO
affected

23.4 before 23.4R2-S3-EVO
affected

24.2 before 24.2R1-S2-EVO, 24.2R2-EVO
affected

Any version before 21.3R1-EVO
unaffected

Credits

Juniper SIRT would like to acknowledge and thank Craig Dods from Meta’s Infrastructure Security Engineering team for responsibly reporting this vulnerability. finder

References

supportportal.juniper.net/JSA92872 vendor-advisory

cve.org (CVE-2025-21602)

nvd.nist.gov (CVE-2025-21602)

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