Medium severity · published Jul 11, 2025
CVE-2025-52984
A NULL Pointer Dereference vulnerability in the routing protocol daemon (rpd) of Juniper Networks Junos OS and Junos OS Evolved allows an unauthenticated, network-based attacker…
5.9
CVSS
0.5%
EPSS
No
On KEV
Description
A NULL Pointer Dereference vulnerability in the routing protocol daemon (rpd) of Juniper Networks Junos OS and Junos OS Evolved allows an unauthenticated, network-based attacker to cause impact to the availability of the device.
When static route points to a reject next hop and a gNMI query is processed for that static route, rpd crashes and restarts.
This issue affects:
Junos OS: * all versions before 21.2R3-S9,
* 21.4 versions before 21.4R3-S10,
* 22.2 versions before 22.2R3-S6,
* 22.4 versions before 22.4R3-S6,
* 23.2 versions before 23.2R2-S3,
* 23.4 versions before 23.4R2-S4,
* 24.2 versions before 24.2R1-S2, 24.2R2;
Junos OS Evolved:
* all versions before 22.4R3-S7-EVO,
* 23.2-EVO
versions before 23.2R2-S3-EVO,
* 23.4-EVO versions before 23.4R2-S4-EVO,
* 24.2-EVO versions before 24.2R2-EVO.
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Attack vector
Network
Complexity
High
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 · Juniper
before 21.2; 21.2; 21.2; 21.2; 21.2; 21.2; +34 more · source: NVD
JO
Junos OS Evolved · Juniper
before 22.4; 22.4; 22.4; 22.4; 22.4; 22.4; +27 more · source: NVD
References
NVD
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-52984
CVE.org
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2025-52984
Vendor Advisory
https://supportportal.juniper.net/JSA100090
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