Medium severity · published Oct 9, 2025
CVE-2025-59967
A NULL Pointer Dereference vulnerability in the PFE management daemon (evo-pfemand) of Juniper Networks Junos OS Evolved on…
6.5
CVSS
0.2%
EPSS
No
On KEV
Description
A NULL Pointer Dereference vulnerability in the PFE management daemon (evo-pfemand) of Juniper Networks Junos OS Evolved on ACX7024, ACX7024X, ACX7100-32C, ACX7100-48L, ACX7348, ACX7509 devices allows an unauthenticated, adjacent attacker to cause a
Denial-of-Service (DoS).
Whenever specific valid multicast traffic is received on any layer 3 interface the evo-pfemand process crashes and restarts.
Continued receipt of specific valid multicast traffic results in a sustained Denial of Service (DoS) attack.
This issue affects Junos OS Evolved on ACX7024, ACX7024X, ACX7100-32C, ACX7100-48L, ACX7348, ACX7509:
* from 23.2R2-EVO before 23.2R2-S4-EVO,
* from 23.4R1-EVO before 23.4R2-EVO.
This issue affects IPv4 and IPv6.
This issue does not affect Junos OS Evolved ACX7024, ACX7024X, ACX7100-32C, ACX7100-48L, ACX7348, ACX7509 versions before 23.2R2-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)0.2% · higher than 10% 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; 23.4; 23.4; +1 more · source: NVD
References
NVD
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-59967
CVE.org
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2025-59967
Vendor Advisory
https://supportportal.juniper.net/JSA103156
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