Medium severity · published Apr 9, 2026
CVE-2025-59969
Junos OS Evolved: QFX5000 Series and PTX Series: An attacker sending crafted multicast packets will cause evo-aftmand / evo-pfemand to crash and restart
6.5
CVSS
0.2%
EPSS
No
On KEV
Description
A Buffer Copy without Checking Size of Input ('Classic Buffer Overflow') vulnerability in the advanced forwarding toolkit (evo-aftmand/evo-pfemand) of Juniper Networks Junos OS Evolved on PTX Series or QFX5000 Series allows an unauthenticated, adjacent attacker to cause a Denial of Service (DoS).An attacker sending crafted multicast packets will cause line cards running evo-aftmand/evo-pfemand to crash and restart or non-line card devices to crash and restart. Continued receipt and processing of these packets will sustain the Denial of Service (DoS) condition.
This issue affects Junos OS Evolved PTX Series:
* All versions before 22.4R3-S8-EVO,
* from 23.2 before 23.2R2-S5-EVO,
* from 23.4 before 23.4R2-EVO,
* from 24.2 before 24.2R2-EVO,
* from 24.4 before 24.4R2-EVO.
This issue affects Junos OS Evolved on QFX5000 Series:
* 22.2-EVO version before 22.2R3-S7-EVO,
* 22.4-EVO version before 22.4R3-S7-EVO,
* 23.2-EVO versions before 23.2R2-S4-EVO,
* 23.4-EVO versions before 23.4R2-S5-EVO,
* 24.2-EVO versions before 24.2R2-S1-EVO,
* 24.4-EVO versions before 24.4R1-S3-EVO, 24.4R2-EVO.
This issue does not affect Junos OS Evolved on QFX5000 Series versions before: 21.2R2-S1-EVO, 21.2R3-EVO, 21.3R2-EVO, 21.4R1-EVO, and 22.1R1-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 7% of CVEs
Exploited in the wildNo evidence yet
CISA KEVNot listed
Ransomware campaign useNot known
Affected products
Which versions
JO
Junos OS Evolved · Juniper Networks
before 22.4R3-S8-EVO; 23.2 before 23.2R2-S5-EVO; 23.4 before 23.4R2-EVO; 24.2 before 24.2R2-EVO; 24.4 before 24.4R2-EVO; 22.2 before 22.2R3-S7-EVO; +5 more · source: vendor, NVD
References
NVD
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-59969
CVE.org
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2025-59969
Vendor Advisory
https://kb.juniper.net/JSA103159
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