Riskcovery

CVE-2025-30660

Junos OS: MX Series: Decapsulation of specific GRE packets leads to PFE reset

State
Published
Severity
8.7 High
Published
Apr 9, 2025
Updated
Apr 9, 2025
Reserved
Mar 24, 2025

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Description

An Improper Check for Unusual or Exceptional Conditions vulnerability in the Packet Forwarding Engine (pfe) of Juniper Networks Junos OS on MX Series allows an unauthenticated, network-based attacker to cause a Denial-of-Service (DoS).When processing a high rate of specific GRE traffic destined to the device, the respective PFE will hang causing traffic forwarding to stop.

When this issue occurs the following logs can be observed:

<fpc #> MQSS(0): LI-3: Received a parcel with more than 512B accompanying data CHASSISD_FPC_ASIC_ERROR: ASIC Error detected <...>

This issue affects Junos OS:

* all versions before 21.2R3-S9, * 21.4 versions before 21.4R3-S8, * 22.2 versions before 22.2R3-S4, * 22.4 versions before 22.4R3-S5, * 23.2 versions before 23.2R2-S2, * 23.4 versions before 23.4R2.

Scores

CVSSScoreVectorSource
4.08.7 HighCVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:L/AU:Y/RE:Mjuniper
3.17.5 HighCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:Hjuniper

Weaknesses

  • CWE-754 Improper Check for Unusual or Exceptional Conditions

Affected Products

ProductVersions
Junos OSJuniper Networks
  • before 21.2R3-S9Affected
  • 21.4 to before 21.4R3-S8Affected
  • 22.2 to before 22.2R3-S4Affected
  • 22.4 to before 22.4R3-S5Affected
  • 23.2 to before 23.2R2-S2Affected
  • 23.4 to before 23.4R2Affected

References

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