CVE-2025-21595

April 9, 2025, 8:15 p.m.

6.5
Medium

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.

Product(s) Impacted

Product Versions
juniper_junos_os
  • *
juniper_junos_evolved
  • *

Weaknesses

Common security weaknesses mapped to this vulnerability.

CWE-401
Missing Release of Memory after Effective Lifetime
The product does not sufficiently track and release allocated memory after it has been used, which slowly consumes remaining memory.

References

https://supportportal.juniper.net/JSA96450

Tags

CWE-401
sirt@juniper.net
2025-04-09
CVE-2025-21595

CVSS Score

6.5 / 10

CVSS Data - 3.1

  • Attack Vector: ADJACENT_NETWORK
  • Attack Complexity: LOW
  • Privileges Required: NONE
  • Scope: UNCHANGED
  • Confidentiality Impact: NONE
  • Integrity Impact: NONE
  • Availability Impact: HIGH

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

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Timeline

Published: April 9, 2025, 8:15 p.m.
Last Modified: April 9, 2025, 8:15 p.m.

Status : Received

CVE has been recently published to the CVE List and has been received by the NVD.

More info

Source

sirt@juniper.net

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