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Junos EUVDEUVD-2025-21139

| CVE-2025-52946 HIGH
Use After Free (CWE-416)
2025-07-11 sirt@juniper.net
7.5
CVSS 3.1 · NVD
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Vulnerability Assessment

Weakness
CWE
OWASP Top 10:2025
A06:2021 - Vulnerable and Outdated Components
ASVS 5.0
V15 - Secure Coding and Architecture Memory lifecycle management
MITRE ATT&CK

2 techniques across 2 tactics: Execution, Privilege Escalation

The technique list with ATT&CK links and the kill-chain view is part of the Basic plan and up.

Impact

CVSS 7.5. EPSS 0.1%. No patch confirmed.

Exploit ScenarioDerived

An attacker could exploit this vulnerability in the affected application to compromise the security of affected deployments, potentially impacting confidentiality, integrity, or availability.

This Week Schedule remediation this week. Why: HIGH severity (CVSS 7.0-8.9).
Patch available 0.1% exploitation probability (EPSS)

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AnalysisAIv1 – Mar 16, 2026

A denial of service vulnerability (CVSS 7.5) that allows an attacker sending a bgp update with a specifically malformed as path. High severity vulnerability requiring prompt remediation.

Earlier versions of this analysis (1)
v1 Mar 16, 2026 - 08:17 CVSS 7.5

A Use After Free vulnerability in the routing protocol daemon (rpd) of Juniper Networks Junos OS and Juniper Networks Junos OS Evolved allows an attacker sending a BGP update with a specifically malfo

RemediationAI

Monitor vendor channels for patch availability.

Affected VersionsENISA

Junos OS Evolved 0 <22.4R3-S5-EVO
Junos OS Evolved 23.4-EVO <23.4R2-S4-EVO
Junos OS 23.2 <23.2R2-S3
Junos OS 23.4 <23.4R2-S4
Junos OS 24.2 <24.2R2
Junos OS Evolved 23.2-EVO <23.2R2-S3-EVO
Junos OS 22.4 <22.4R3-S5
Junos OS 22.2 <22.2R3-S6
Junos OS 0 <21.2R3-S9
Junos OS 21.4 <*
Junos OS Evolved 24.2-EVO <24.2R2-EVO

Affected Packages

euvd junos_os fix: 21.2R3-S9, 22.2R3-S6, 22.4R3-S5, 23.2R2-S3, 23.4R2-S4, 24.2R2
euvd junos_os_evolved fix: 22.4R3-S5-EVO, 23.2R2-S3-EVO, 23.4R2-S4-EVO, 24.2R2-EVO

Source: OSV (Open Source Vulnerabilities)

Affects your stack

Affects 2 packages in euvd

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Technical ContextAI · show details

CWE-416 (Use After Free). CVSS 7.5 indicates high severity.

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Severity by source

NVD PRIMARY 7.5 HIGH
AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Primary rating from NVD · only source for this CVE.

CVSS VectorNVD

Attack Vector
Network
Attack Complexity
Low
Privileges Required
None
User Interaction
None
Scope
Unchanged
Confidentiality
None
Integrity
None
Availability
High

Lifecycle Timeline

2
Patch available
Apr 16, 2026 - 05:29 EUVD
22.4R3-S5-EVO,23.4R2-S4-EVO,23.2R2-S3
CVE Published
Jul 11, 2025 - 15:15 nvd
HIGH 7.5

DescriptionCVE.org

A Use After Free vulnerability in the routing protocol daemon (rpd) of Juniper Networks Junos OS and Juniper Networks Junos OS Evolved allows an attacker sending a BGP update with a specifically malformed AS PATH to cause rpd to crash, resulting in a Denial of Service (DoS). Continuous receipt of the malformed AS PATH attribute will cause a sustained DoS condition.

On all Junos OS and Junos OS Evolved platforms, the rpd process will crash and restart when a specifically malformed AS PATH is received within a BGP update and traceoptions are enabled.

This issue only affects systems with BGP traceoptions enabled and requires a BGP session to be already established. Systems without BGP traceoptions enabled are not impacted by this issue.

This issue affects:

Junos OS:

  • All versions before 21.2R3-S9,
  • all versions of 21.4,
  • from 22.2 before 22.2R3-S6,
  • from 22.4 before 22.4R3-S5,
  • 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 22.4R3-S5-EVO,
  • from 23.2-EVO before 23.2R2-S3-EVO,
  • from 23.4-EVO before 23.4R2-S4-EVO,
  • from 24.2-EVO before 24.2R2-EVO.

This is a more complete fix for previously published CVE-2024-39549 (JSA83011).

Executive ViewAI

Why It Matters

CVE-2025-52946 is a high-severity denial of service vulnerability affecting BGP implementations that can be triggered by a single malformed AS path update, potentially disrupting critical routing infrastructure and network availability. An attacker can remotely crash or hang BGP processes without authentication, making this a significant risk to any organization relying on BGP for core network operations.

Business Impact: High
Compensating Controls

Apply vendor patch. If immediate patching is not possible: (1) Implement strict BGP input validation and filtering at network edge to reject malformed AS path attributes; (2) configure BGP authentication (MD5/GTSM) to limit BGP peers to trusted sources only; (3) deploy rate limiting on BGP update processing; (4) establish automated BGP session monitoring and failover to detect sudden process termination.

Threat Intelligence Overview

EPSS Score
0.1%
Top 71% exploitable
Data Quality
4 sources
Confidence: Medium

How this decision was reached

The engine reads each signal below and applies a fixed list of rules from top to bottom. The first rule that matches sets the recommended action – like a statement, every line is shown.

SignalValue
Severity HIGH
CISA KEV No
Public POC No
EPSS 0.1%
Patch available Yes
Active threat No
Deciding rule
HIGH severity (CVSS 7.0-8.9)
What every action level means
Emergency Immediate action required. Criteria: CRITICAL + in CISA KEV (actively exploited) without patch, OR CRITICAL + EPSS > 30% without patch, OR CRITICAL + active threat signals without patch.
Act Now Prioritize within 24-48h. Criteria: in KEV with patch available, OR CRITICAL + public POC, OR HIGH + EPSS > 10%, OR CRITICAL + active threat, OR any CRITICAL severity.
This Week Schedule remediation this week. Criteria: HIGH severity (CVSS 7.0-8.9). Patch within normal change window.
This Month Plan within 30 days. Criteria: MEDIUM severity (CVSS 4.0-6.9), lower exploitation probability. Include in regular patch cycle.
Monitor Track and reassess. Criteria: LOW severity (CVSS 0.1-3.9), minimal exploitation risk. No immediate action needed.

SSVC AssessmentENISA

SSVC Decision· derived
Scheduled
Exploitation· derived
None
System Exposure· derived
Open
Automatable· derived
Yes
Human Impact
High

Priority Score

38
Low Medium High Critical
KEV: 0
EPSS: 0
CVSS: +38
PoC: 0
Weaponized: 0
Threat intel: 0
Gov advisory: 0

Attack Technique

Use-after-free vulnerabilities occur when a program continues to access memory through a pointer after that memory has been deallocated.

Denial of Service attacks render applications or systems unavailable by overwhelming resources or triggering failure conditions.

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