CVE-2025-21599

HIGH

Juniper Junos OS Evolved DoS via Malformed IPv6 Packet Handling

Title source: llm
STIX 2.1

Description

A Missing Release of Memory after Effective Lifetime vulnerability in the Juniper Tunnel Driver (jtd) of Juniper Networks Junos OS Evolved allows an unauthenticated network-based attacker to cause Denial of Service.  Receipt of specifically malformed IPv6 packets, destined to the device, causes kernel memory to not be freed, resulting in memory exhaustion leading to a system crash and Denial of Service (DoS). Continuous receipt and processing of these packets will continue to exhaust kernel memory, creating a sustained Denial of Service (DoS) condition. This issue only affects systems configured with IPv6. This issue affects Junos OS Evolved:  * from 22.4-EVO before 22.4R3-S5-EVO,  * from 23.2-EVO before 23.2R2-S2-EVO,  * from 23.4-EVO before 23.4R2-S2-EVO,  * from 24.2-EVO before 24.2R1-S2-EVO, 24.2R2-EVO. This issue does not affect Juniper Networks Junos OS Evolved versions prior to 22.4R1-EVO.

References (1)

Core 1
Core References
Vendor Advisory vendor-advisory
https://supportportal.juniper.net/JSA92869

Scores

CVSS v3 7.5
EPSS 0.0034
EPSS Percentile 56.9%
Attack Vector NETWORK
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

CISA SSVC

Vulnrichment
Exploitation none
Automatable yes
Technical Impact partial

Details

CWE
CWE-401
Status published
Products (4)
juniper/junos_os_evolved 22.4 (12 CPE variants)
juniper/junos_os_evolved 23.2 (6 CPE variants)
juniper/junos_os_evolved 23.4 (6 CPE variants)
juniper/junos_os_evolved 24.2 (3 CPE variants)
Published Jan 09, 2025
Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026