CVE-2025-52954
HIGHJuniper Junos OS Evolved Privilege Escalation via Internal VRF Packet Injection
Title source: llmDescription
A Missing Authorization vulnerability in the internal virtual routing and forwarding (VRF) of Juniper Networks Junos OS Evolved allows a local, low-privileged user to gain root privileges, leading to a system compromise. Any low-privileged user with the capability to send packets over the internal VRF can execute arbitrary Junos commands and modify the configuration, and thus compromise the system. This issue affects Junos OS Evolved: * All versions before 22.2R3-S7-EVO, * from 22.4 before 22.4R3-S7-EVO, * from 23.2 before 23.2R2-S4-EVO, * from 23.4 before 23.4R2-S5-EVO, * from 24.2 before 24.2R2-S1-EVO * from 24.4 before 24.4R1-S2-EVO, 24.4R2-EVO.
References (1)
Core 1
Core References
Vendor Advisory vendor-advisory
https://supportportal.juniper.net/JSA100060
Scores
CVSS v3
7.8
EPSS
0.0007
EPSS Percentile
20.6%
Attack Vector
LOCAL
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CISA SSVC
Vulnrichment
Exploitation
none
Automatable
no
Technical Impact
total
Details
CWE
CWE-862
Status
published
Products (6)
juniper/junos_os_evolved
22.2 (14 CPE variants)
juniper/junos_os_evolved
22.4 (14 CPE variants)
juniper/junos_os_evolved
23.2 (8 CPE variants)
juniper/junos_os_evolved
23.4 (9 CPE variants)
juniper/junos_os_evolved
24.2 (4 CPE variants)
juniper/junos_os_evolved
24.4
Published
Jul 11, 2025
Tracked Since
Feb 18, 2026