CVE-2025-59964
HIGHJuniper Junos OS on SRX4700 24.4 < 24.4R1-S3, 24.4R2 - Unauthenticated Denial of Service via Packet Forwarding Engine
Title source: llmDescription
A Use of Uninitialized Resource vulnerability in the Packet Forwarding Engine (PFE) of Juniper Networks Junos OS on SRX4700 devices allows an unauthenticated, network-based attacker to cause a Denial of Service (DoS). When forwarding-options sampling is enabled, receipt of any traffic destined to the Routing Engine (RE) by the PFE line card leads to an FPC crash and restart, resulting in a Denial of Service (DoS). Continued receipt and processing of any traffic leading to the RE by the PFE line card will create a sustained Denial of Service (DoS) condition to the PFE line card. This issue affects Junos OS on SRX4700: * from 24.4 before 24.4R1-S3, 24.4R2 This issue affects IPv4 and IPv6.
References (2)
Core 2
Core References
Vendor Advisory vendor-advisory
https://supportportal.juniper.net/JSA103153
Technical Description technical-description
https://www.juniper.net/documentation/us/en/software/junos/cli-reference/topics/ref/statement/sampling-edit-forwarding-options.html
Scores
CVSS v3
7.5
EPSS
0.0033
EPSS Percentile
24.2%
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-908
Status
published
Products (1)
juniper/junos
24.4 (4 CPE variants)
Published
Oct 09, 2025
Tracked Since
Feb 18, 2026