Medium severity · published Jul 11, 2025
CVE-2025-52985
A Use of Incorrect Operator vulnerability in the Routing Engine firewall of Juniper Networks Junos OS Evolved allows an unauthenticated, network-based attacker to bypass security…
5.3
CVSS
0.3%
EPSS
No
On KEV
Description
A Use of Incorrect Operator
vulnerability in the Routing Engine firewall of Juniper Networks Junos OS Evolved allows an unauthenticated, network-based attacker to bypass security restrictions.
When a firewall filter which is applied to the lo0 or re:mgmt interface references a prefix list with 'from prefix-list', and that prefix list contains more than 10 entries, the prefix list doesn't match and packets destined to or from the local device are not filtered.
This issue affects firewall filters applied to the re:mgmt interfaces as input and output, but only affects firewall filters applied to the lo0 interface as output.
This issue is applicable to IPv4 and IPv6 as a prefix list can contain IPv4 and IPv6 prefixes.
This issue affects Junos OS Evolved:
* 23.2R2-S3-EVO versions before 23.2R2-S4-EVO,
* 23.4R2-S3-EVO versions before 23.4R2-S5-EVO,
* 24.2R2-EVO versions before 24.2R2-S1-EVO,
* 24.4-EVO versions before 24.4R1-S3-EVO, 24.4R2-EVO.
This issue doesn't affect Junos OS Evolved versions before 23.2R1-EVO.
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N
Attack vector
Network
Complexity
Low
Privileges
None
User interaction
None
Confidentiality
None
Integrity
Low
Availability
None
Scope
Unchanged
Exploitation
Is it being used?
Exploit prediction (EPSS)0.3% · higher than 22% 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; 23.4; 23.4; 24.2; 24.4; 24.4; +2 more · source: NVD
References
NVD
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-52985
CVE.org
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2025-52985
Vendor Advisory
https://supportportal.juniper.net/JSA100091
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