CVE-2025-52958

Junos OS and Junos OS Evolved: When route validation is enabled, BGP connection establishment failure causes RPD crash

MEDIUM
5.3
CVSS Score
Published: July 11, 2025 at 02:43 PM UTC
Updated: June 17, 2026 at 09:37 AM UTC
3 products affected across 2 vendorsJunosJunos OS EvolvedJunos OS Evolved

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Severity
MEDIUM5.3
Exploit prediction
EPSS 0.2%
SSVC
No known exploit

Description

A Reachable Assertion vulnerability in the routing protocol daemon (rpd) of Juniper Networks Junos OS and Junos OS Evolved allows an adjacent, unauthenticated attacker to cause a Denial of Service (DoS).On all Junos OS and Junos OS Evolved devices, when route validation is enabled, a rare condition during BGP initial session establishment can lead to an rpd crash and restart. This occurs specifically when the connection request fails during error-handling scenario. Continued session establishment failures leads to a sustained DoS condition. This issue affects Junos OS: * All versions before 22.2R3-S6, * from 22.4 before 22.4R3-S6, * from 23.2 before 23.2R2-S3, * from 23.4 before 23.4R2-S4, * from 24.2 before 24.2R2; Junos OS Evolved: * All versions before 22.2R3-S6-EVO, * from 22.4 before 22.4R3-S6-EVO, * from 23.2 before 23.2R2-S3-EVO, * from 23.4 before 23.4R2-S4-EVO, * from 24.2 before 24.2R2-EVO.

Affected

Our own answer: ranges merged, affected separated from platform-only, with confidence and review flags.

Affected range stops below 22.2R3-S6, so it looks safe — our inference, not a vendor statement
Affected range stops below 22.4R3-S6, so it looks safe — our inference, not a vendor statement
Affected range stops below 23.2R2-S3, so it looks safe — our inference, not a vendor statement
Affected range stops below 23.4R2-S4, so it looks safe — our inference, not a vendor statement
Affected range stops below 24.2R2, so it looks safe — our inference, not a vendor statement
v < 22.2R3-S6-EVO22.4 ≤ v < 22.4R3-S6-EVO23.2 ≤ v < 23.2R2-S3-EVO23.4 ≤ v < 23.4R2-S4-EVO24.2 ≤ v < 24.2R2-EVO22.423.223.424.2
Affected range stops below 22.2R3-S6-EVO, so it looks safe — our inference, not a vendor statement
Affected range stops below 22.4R3-S6-EVO, so it looks safe — our inference, not a vendor statement
Affected range stops below 23.2R2-S3-EVO, so it looks safe — our inference, not a vendor statement
Affected range stops below 23.4R2-S4-EVO, so it looks safe — our inference, not a vendor statement
Affected range stops below 24.2R2-EVO, so it looks safe — our inference, not a vendor statement

Remediation

No guide yet

No remediation guidance has been written for this CVE yet. What the record does show:

Patch and advisory references

SSVC — Action Prioritization

SSVCNo known exploitNot automatablePartial impact

SSVC signals action urgency (what to patch first), separate from CVSS which measures severity.

CVSS

5.3MEDIUMjuniper
Attack Vector
ADJACENT_NETWORK
Complexity
HIGH
Privileges
NONE
User Interaction
NONE
Scope
UNCHANGED
Confidentiality
NONE
Integrity
NONE
Availability
HIGH
Vector?

Quick Info

StatusANALYZED
CWE
CWE-617

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