{"id":"CVE-2025-52958","state":"PUBLISHED","title":"Junos OS and Junos OS Evolved: When route validation is enabled, BGP connection establishment failure causes RPD crash","description":"A Reachable Assertion vulnerability in the routing protocol daemon (rpd) of Juniper Networks Junos OS and Junos OS Evolved allows an adjacent, unauthenticated attacker to cause a Denial of Service (DoS).On all Junos OS and Junos OS Evolved devices, when route validation is enabled, a rare condition during BGP initial session establishment can lead to an rpd crash and restart. This occurs specifically when the connection request fails during error-handling scenario.\n\nContinued session establishment failures leads to a sustained DoS condition. \n\nThis issue affects Junos OS:\n\n  *  All versions before 22.2R3-S6, \n  *  from 22.4 before 22.4R3-S6, \n  *  from 23.2 before 23.2R2-S3, \n  *  from 23.4 before 23.4R2-S4, \n  *  from 24.2 before 24.2R2; \n\n\n\nJunos OS Evolved: \n  *  All versions before 22.2R3-S6-EVO, \n  *  from 22.4 before 22.4R3-S6-EVO,\n  *  from 23.2 before 23.2R2-S3-EVO,\n  *  from 23.4 before 23.4R2-S4-EVO, \n  *  from 24.2 before 24.2R2-EVO.","publishedAt":"2025-07-11T14:43:38.431Z","updatedAt":"2025-07-11T14:55:56.096Z","severity":{"score":6,"label":"Medium","version":"4.0","vector":"CVSS:4.0/AV:A/AC:H/AT:P/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:L/R:A/RE:M/U:Green","source":"juniper"},"assigner":"juniper","products":["Juniper Networks Junos OS","Juniper Networks Junos OS Evolved"],"affected":[{"vendor":"Juniper Networks","product":"Junos OS","defaultStatus":"unaffected","versions":[{"version":"0","status":"affected","lessThan":"22.2R3-S6","versionType":"semver"},{"version":"22.4","status":"affected","lessThan":"22.4R3-S6","versionType":"semver"},{"version":"23.2","status":"affected","lessThan":"23.2R2-S3","versionType":"semver"},{"version":"23.4","status":"affected","lessThan":"23.4R2-S4","versionType":"semver"},{"version":"24.2","status":"affected","lessThan":"24.2R2","versionType":"semver"}]},{"vendor":"Juniper Networks","product":"Junos OS Evolved","defaultStatus":"unaffected","versions":[{"version":"0","status":"affected","lessThan":"22.2R3-S6-EVO","versionType":"semver"},{"version":"22.4","status":"affected","lessThan":"22.4R3-S6-EVO","versionType":"semver"},{"version":"23.2","status":"affected","lessThan":"23.2R2-S3-EVO","versionType":"semver"},{"version":"23.4","status":"affected","lessThan":"23.4R2-S4-EVO","versionType":"semver"},{"version":"24.2","status":"affected","lessThan":"24.2R2-EVO","versionType":"semver"}]}],"references":["https://supportportal.juniper.net/JSA100066"],"weaknesses":["CWE-617"],"ingestedAt":"2026-10-29T20:09:31.862Z","source":{"repository":"CVEProject/cvelistV5","path":"cves/2025/52xxx/CVE-2025-52958.json","commit":"556c9d3a8cd17e218bb8e452ba7cd619a384ff47"},"raw":{"dataType":"CVE_RECORD","dataVersion":"5.1","cveMetadata":{"cveId":"CVE-2025-52958","state":"PUBLISHED","datePublished":"2025-07-11T14:43:38.431Z","dateUpdated":"2025-07-11T14:55:56.096Z","assignerShortName":"juniper","assignerOrgId":"8cbe9d5a-a066-4c94-8978-4b15efeae968","dateReserved":"2025-06-23T13:17:37.424Z"},"containers":{"cna":{"title":"Junos OS and Junos OS Evolved: When route validation is enabled, BGP connection establishment failure causes RPD crash","descriptions":[{"lang":"en","value":"A Reachable Assertion vulnerability in the routing protocol daemon (rpd) of Juniper Networks Junos OS and Junos OS Evolved allows an adjacent, unauthenticated attacker to cause a Denial of Service (DoS).On all Junos OS and Junos OS Evolved devices, when route validation is enabled, a rare condition during BGP initial session establishment can lead to an rpd crash and restart. 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