CVE-2025-59967

Junos OS Evolved: ACX7024, ACX7024X, ACX7100-32C, ACX7100-48L, ACX7348, ACX7509: When specific valid multicast traffic is received on the L3 interface on a vulnerable device evo-pfemand crashes and restarts

State
Published
Severity
7.1 High
Published
Oct 9, 2025
Updated
Oct 9, 2025
Reserved
Sep 23, 2025

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Description

A NULL Pointer Dereference vulnerability in the PFE management daemon (evo-pfemand) of Juniper Networks Junos OS Evolved on ACX7024, ACX7024X, ACX7100-32C, ACX7100-48L, ACX7348, ACX7509 devices allows an unauthenticated, adjacent attacker to cause a

Denial-of-Service (DoS).

Whenever specific valid multicast traffic is received on any layer 3 interface the evo-pfemand process crashes and restarts.

Continued receipt of specific valid multicast traffic results in a sustained Denial of Service (DoS) attack. This issue affects Junos OS Evolved on ACX7024, ACX7024X, ACX7100-32C, ACX7100-48L, ACX7348, ACX7509:

* from 23.2R2-EVO before 23.2R2-S4-EVO,  * from 23.4R1-EVO before 23.4R2-EVO.

This issue affects IPv4 and IPv6.

This issue does not affect Junos OS Evolved ACX7024, ACX7024X, ACX7100-32C, ACX7100-48L, ACX7348, ACX7509 versions before 23.2R2-EVO.

Scores

CVSSScoreVectorSource
4.07.1 HighCVSS:4.0/AV:A/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:L/AU:Y/R:A/V:C/RE:M/U:Greenjuniper
3.16.5 MediumCVSS:3.1/AV:A/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:Hjuniper

Weaknesses

Affected Products

ProductVersions
Junos OS EvolvedJuniper Networks
  • 23.2R2-EVO to before 23.2R2-S4-EVOAffected
  • 23.4R1-EVO to before 23.4R2-EVOAffected

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