CVE-2025-21595
Severity CVSS v4.0:
HIGH
Type:
Unavailable / Other
Publication date:
09/04/2025
Last modified:
26/01/2026
Description
A Missing Release of Memory after Effective Lifetime vulnerability in the Packet Forwarding Engine (PFE) of Juniper Networks Junos OS and Junos OS Evolved allows an adjacent, unauthenticated attacker to cause an FPC to crash, leading to Denial of Service (DoS).<br />
<br />
On all Junos OS and Junos OS Evolved platforms, in an EVPN-VXLAN scenario, when specific ARP packets are received on an IPv4 network, or specific NDP packets are received on an IPv6 network, kernel heap memory leaks, which eventually leads to an FPC crash and restart.<br />
<br />
This issue does not affect MX Series platforms.<br />
Heap size growth on FPC can be seen using below command.<br />
<br />
<br />
user@host> show chassis fpc<br />
Temp CPU Utilization (%) CPU Utilization (%) Memory Utilization (%)<br />
Slot State (C) Total Interrupt 1min 5min 15min DRAM (MB) Heap Buffer<br />
0 Online 45 3 0 2 2 2 32768 19 0
Impact
Base Score 4.0
7.10
Severity 4.0
HIGH
Base Score 3.x
6.50
Severity 3.x
MEDIUM
Vulnerable products and versions
| CPE | From | Up to |
|---|---|---|
| cpe:2.3:o:juniper:junos:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | 21.2 (excluding) | |
| cpe:2.3:o:juniper:junos:21.2:-:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
| cpe:2.3:o:juniper:junos:21.2:r1:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
| cpe:2.3:o:juniper:junos:21.2:r1-s1:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
| cpe:2.3:o:juniper:junos:21.2:r1-s2:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
| cpe:2.3:o:juniper:junos:21.2:r2:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
| cpe:2.3:o:juniper:junos:21.2:r2-s1:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
| cpe:2.3:o:juniper:junos:21.2:r2-s2:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
| cpe:2.3:o:juniper:junos:21.2:r3:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
| cpe:2.3:o:juniper:junos:21.2:r3-s1:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
| cpe:2.3:o:juniper:junos:21.2:r3-s2:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
| cpe:2.3:o:juniper:junos:21.2:r3-s3:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
| cpe:2.3:o:juniper:junos:21.2:r3-s4:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
| cpe:2.3:o:juniper:junos:21.2:r3-s5:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
| cpe:2.3:o:juniper:junos:21.2:r3-s6:*:*:*:*:*:* |
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