Medium severity · published Jul 11, 2025
CVE-2025-52953
Junos OS and Junos OS Evolved: An unauthenticated adjacent attacker sending a valid BGP UPDATE packet forces a BGP session reset
6.5
CVSS
0.3%
EPSS
No
On KEV
Description
An Expected Behavior Violation vulnerability in the routing protocol daemon (rpd) of Juniper Networks Junos OS and Junos OS Evolved allows an unauthenticated adjacent attacker sending a valid BGP UPDATE packet to cause a BGP session reset, resulting in a Denial of Service (DoS).
Continuous receipt and processing of this packet will create a sustained Denial of Service (DoS) condition.
This issue affects iBGP and eBGP and both IPv4 and IPv6 are affected by this vulnerability.
This issue affects Junos OS:
* All versions before 21.2R3-S9,
* from 21.4 before 21.4R3-S11,
* from 22.2 before 22.2R3-S7,
* from 22.4 before 22.4R3-S7,
* from 23.2 before 23.2R2-S4,
* from 23.4 before 23.4R2-S4,
* from 24.2 before 24.2R2,
* from 24.4 before 24.4R1-S3, 24.4R2
Junos OS Evolved:
* All versions before 22.2R3-S7-EVO,
* from 22.4-EVO before 22.4R3-S7-EVO,
* from 23.2-EVO before 23.2R2-S4-EVO,
* from 23.4-EVO before 23.4R2-S4-EVO,
* from 24.2-EVO before 24.2R2-EVO,
* from 24.4-EVO before 24.4R1-S3-EVO, 24.4R2-EVO.
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:A/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Attack vector
Adjacent
Complexity
Low
Privileges
None
User interaction
None
Confidentiality
None
Integrity
None
Availability
High
Scope
Unchanged
Exploitation
Is it being used?
Exploit prediction (EPSS)0.3% · higher than 26% of CVEs
Exploited in the wildNo evidence yet
CISA KEVNot listed
Ransomware campaign useNot known
Affected products
Which versions
JO
Junos OS · Juniper
before 21.2R3-S9; 21.4 before 21.4R3-S11; 22.2 before 22.2R3-S7; 22.4 before 22.4R3-S7; 23.2 before 23.2R2-S4; 23.4 before 23.4R2-S4; +2 more · source: vendor, NVD
JO
Junos OS Evolved · Juniper Networks
before 22.2R3-S7-EVO; 22.4-EVO before 22.4R3-S7-EVO; 23.2-EVO before 23.2R2-S4-EVO; 23.4-EVO before 23.4R2-S4-EVO; 24.2-EVO before 24.2R2-EVO; 24.4-EVO before 24.4R1-S3-EVO, 24.4R2-EVO · source: vendor, NVD
References
NVD
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-52953
CVE.org
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2025-52953
Vendor Advisory
https://supportportal.juniper.net/JSA100059
Technical Description
https://www.juniper.net/documentation/us/en/software/junos/bgp/topics/task/routing-protocol-bgp-security-configuring.html
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