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CVE-2025-21595

Junos OS and Junos OS Evolved: In an EVPN-VXLAN scenario specific ARP or NDP packets cause FPC to crash



Description

A Missing Release of Memory after Effective Lifetime vulnerability in the Packet Forwarding Engine (PFE) of Juniper Networks Junos OS and Junos OS Evolved allows an adjacent, unauthenticated attacker to cause an FPC to crash, leading to Denial of Service (DoS). On all Junos OS and Junos OS Evolved platforms, in an EVPN-VXLAN scenario, when specific ARP packets are received on an IPv4 network, or specific NDP packets are received on an IPv6 network, kernel heap memory leaks, which eventually leads to an FPC crash and restart. This issue does not affect MX Series platforms. Heap size growth on FPC can be seen using below command. user@host> show chassis fpc                     Temp CPU Utilization (%) CPU Utilization (%) Memory   Utilization (%) Slot State           (C) Total Interrupt     1min   5min   15min   DRAM (MB)   Heap   Buffer   0 Online           45     3         0       2       2      2       32768      19       0 <<<<<<< Heap increase in all fPCs This issue affects Junos OS: * All versions before 21.2R3-S7, * 21.4 versions before 21.4R3-S4, * 22.2 versions before 22.2R3-S1,  * 22.3 versions before 22.3R3-S1,  * 22.4 versions before 22.4R2-S2, 22.4R3. and Junos OS Evolved: * All versions before 21.2R3-S7-EVO, * 21.4-EVO versions before 21.4R3-S4-EVO, * 22.2-EVO versions before 22.2R3-S1-EVO,  * 22.3-EVO versions before 22.3R3-S1-EVO,  * 22.4-EVO versions before 22.4R3-EVO.

Reserved 2024-12-26 | Published 2025-04-09 | Updated 2025-04-10 | Assigner juniper


MEDIUM: 6.5CVSS:3.1/AV:A/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

HIGH: 7.1CVSS:4.0/AV:A/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:L

Problem types

CWE-401 Missing Release of Memory after Effective Lifetime

Product status

Default status
unaffected

Any version before 21.2R3-S7
affected

21.4 before 21.4R3-S4
affected

22.2 before 22.2R3-S1
affected

22.3 before 22.3R3-S1
affected

22.4 before 22.4R2-S2, 22.4R3
affected

Default status
unaffected

Any version before 21.2R3-S7-EVO
affected

21.4-EVO before 21.4R3-S4-EVO
affected

22.2-EVO before 22.2R3-S1-EVO
affected

22.3-EVO before 22.3R3-S1-EVO
affected

22.4-EVO before 22.4R3-EVO
affected

Timeline

2025-04-09:Initial Publication

References

supportportal.juniper.net/JSA96450 vendor-advisory

cve.org (CVE-2025-21595)

nvd.nist.gov (CVE-2025-21595)

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