CVE-2025-21602

Published Jan 9, 2025

Last updated a month ago

Overview

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
Source
sirt@juniper.net
NVD status
Received

Risk scores

CVSS 4.0

Type
Secondary
Base score
7.1
Impact score
-
Exploitability score
-
Vector string
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
Severity
HIGH

CVSS 3.1

Type
Primary
Base score
6.5
Impact score
3.6
Exploitability score
2.8
Vector string
CVSS:3.1/AV:A/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Severity
MEDIUM

Weaknesses

sirt@juniper.net
CWE-755

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