CVE-2025-52980

Junos OS: SRX300 Series: rpd will crash upon receiving a specific, valid BGP UPDATE message

State
Published
Severity
8.7 High
Published
Jul 11, 2025
Updated
Jul 15, 2025
Reserved
Jun 23, 2025

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Description

A Use of Incorrect Byte Ordering

vulnerability

in the Routing Protocol Daemon (rpd) of Juniper Networks Junos OS on SRX300 Series allows an unauthenticated, network-based attacker to cause a Denial-of-Service (DoS).

When a BGP update is received over an established BGP session which contains a specific, valid, optional, transitive path attribute, rpd will crash and restart.

This issue affects eBGP and iBGP over IPv4 and IPv6.

This issue affects:

Junos OS:

* 22.1 versions from 22.1R1 before 22.2R3-S4, * 22.3 versions before 22.3R3-S3, * 22.4 versions before 22.4R3-S2, * 23.2 versions before 23.2R2, * 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/R:A/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-198 Use of Incorrect Byte Ordering

Affected Products

ProductVersions
Junos OSJuniper Networks
  • 22.2 to before 22.2R3-S4Affected
  • 22.3 to before 22.3R3-S3Affected
  • 22.4 to before 22.4R3-S2Affected
  • 23.2 to before 23.2R2Affected
  • 23.4 to before 23.4R2Affected
  • before 22.1R1Not affected

References

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