{"id":"CVE-2025-52984","state":"PUBLISHED","title":"Junos OS and Junos OS Evolved: When a static route points to a reject next-hop and a gNMI query for this route is processed, RPD crashes","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.\n\nWhen static route points to a reject next hop and a gNMI query is processed for that static route, rpd crashes and restarts.\n\nThis issue affects:\n\nJunos OS:   *  all versions before 21.2R3-S9,\n  *  21.4 versions before 21.4R3-S10, \n  *  22.2 versions before 22.2R3-S6,\n  *  22.4 versions before 22.4R3-S6,\n  *  23.2 versions before 23.2R2-S3,\n  *  23.4 versions before 23.4R2-S4,\n  *  24.2 versions before 24.2R1-S2, 24.2R2;\n\n\nJunos OS Evolved:\n\n\n\n  *  all versions before 22.4R3-S7-EVO,\n  *  23.2-EVO \n\n versions before 23.2R2-S3-EVO,\n  *  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