CVE-2025-52980

Junos OS: SRX300 Series: rpd will crash upon receiving a specific, valid BGP UPDATE message

HIGH
7.5
CVSS Score
Published: July 11, 2025 at 03:08 PM UTC
Updated: June 17, 2026 at 09:37 AM UTC
1 product affected across 1 vendorJunos

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Severity
HIGH7.5
Exploit prediction
EPSS 0.5%
SSVC
No known exploit

Description

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.

Affected

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

Vendor states this is fixed in 22.1R1 (unaffected)
Affected range stops below 22.2R3-S4, so it looks safe — our inference, not a vendor statement
Affected range stops below 22.3R3-S3, so it looks safe — our inference, not a vendor statement
Affected range stops below 22.4R3-S2, so it looks safe — our inference, not a vendor statement
Affected range stops below 23.2R2, so it looks safe — our inference, not a vendor statement
Affected range stops below 23.4R2, so it looks safe — our inference, not a vendor statement
juniper-srx300 (environment) · juniper-srx320 (environment) · juniper-srx340 (environment) · juniper-srx345 (environment) · juniper-srx380 (environment)

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 exploitAutomatablePartial impact

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

CVSS

7.5HIGHjuniper
Attack Vector
NETWORK
Complexity
LOW
Privileges
NONE
User Interaction
NONE
Scope
UNCHANGED
Confidentiality
NONE
Integrity
NONE
Availability
HIGH
Vector?

Quick Info

StatusANALYZED
CWE
CWE-198

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