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A06:2021 - Vulnerable and Outdated Components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. |
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Alert meAnalysisAIv1 – 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.
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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
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Source: OSV (Open Source Vulnerabilities)
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Technical ContextAI · show details
CWE-416 (Use After Free). CVSS 7.5 indicates high severity.
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AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
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2DescriptionCVE.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
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.
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.
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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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