Medium severity · published Oct 9, 2025
CVE-2025-52961
An Uncontrolled Resource Consumption vulnerability in the Connectivity Fault Management (CFM) daemon and the Connectivity Fault Management Manager (cfmman) of Juniper Networks…
6.5
CVSS
0.5%
EPSS
No
On KEV
Description
An Uncontrolled Resource Consumption vulnerability in the Connectivity Fault Management (CFM) daemon and the Connectivity Fault Management Manager (cfmman) of Juniper Networks Junos OS Evolved on PTX10001-36MR, PTX10002-36QDD, PTX10004, PTX10008, PTX10016 allows an unauthenticated, adjacent attacker to cause a Denial-of-Service (DoS).
An attacker on an adjacent device sending specific valid traffic can cause cfmd to spike the CPU to 100% and cfmman's memory to leak, eventually to cause the FPC crash and restart.
Continued receipt and processes of these specific valid packets will sustain the Denial of Service (DoS) condition.
An indicator of compromise is to watch for an increase in cfmman memory rising over time by issuing the following command and evaluating the RSS number. If the RSS is growing into GBs then consider restarting the device to temporarily clear memory.
user@device> show system processes node fpc<num> detail | match cfmman
Example:
show system processes node fpc0 detail | match cfmman
F S UID PID PPID PGID SID C PRI NI ADDR SZ WCHAN RSS PSR STIME TTY TIME CMD
4 S root 15204 1 15204 15204 0 80 0 - 90802 - 113652 4 Sep25 ? 00:15:28 /usr/bin/cfmman -p /var/pfe -o -c /usr/conf/cfmman-cfg-active.xml
This issue affects Junos OS Evolved on PTX10001-36MR, PTX10002-36QDD, PTX10004, PTX10008, PTX10016:
* from 23.2R1-EVO before 23.2R2-S4-EVO,
* from 23.4 before 23.4R2-S4-EVO,
* from 24.2 before 24.2R2-EVO,
* from 24.4 before 24.4R1-S2-EVO, 24.4R2-EVO.
This issue does not affect Junos OS Evolved on PTX10001-36MR, PTX10002-36QDD, PTX10004, PTX10008, PTX10016 before 23.2R1-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)0.5% · higher than 41% of CVEs
Exploited in the wildNo evidence yet
CISA KEVNot listed
Ransomware campaign useNot known
Affected products
Which versions
JO
Junos OS Evolved · Juniper
23.2; 23.2; 23.2; 23.2; 23.2; 23.2; +15 more · source: NVD
References
NVD
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-52961
CVE.org
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2025-52961
Exploit
https://supportportal.juniper.net/JSA103144
Technical Description
https://www.juniper.net/documentation/us/en/software/junos/network-mgmt/topics/topic-map/cfm-configuring.html
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