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CVE-2025-52986

A Missing Release of Memory after Effective Lifetime vulnerability in the routing protocol daemon (rpd) of Juniper Networks Junos OS and Junos OS Evolved allows a local, low privileged user to cause an impact to the availability of the device.

When RIB sharding is enabled and a user executes one of several routing related 'show' commands, a certain amount of memory is leaked. When all available memory has been consumed rpd will crash and restart.

The leak can be monitored with the CLI command:



show task memory detail | match task_shard_mgmt_cookie



where the allocated memory in bytes can be seen to continuously increase with each exploitation.



This issue affects:

Junos OS:

  *  all versions before 21.2R3-S9,
  *  21.4 versions before 21.4R3-S11,
  *  22.2 versions before 22.2R3-S7,
  *  22.4 versions before 22.4R3-S7,
  *  23.2 versions before 23.2R2-S4, 
  *  23.4 versions before 23.4R2-S4,
  *  24.2 versions before 24.2R2,
  *  24.4 versions before 24.4R1-S2, 24.4R2;


Junos OS Evolved:

  *  all versions before 22.2R3-S7-EVO
  *  22.4-EVO versions before 22.4R3-S7-EVO,
  *  23.2-EVO versions before 23.2R2-S4-EVO,
  *  23.4-EVO versions before 23.4R2-S4-EVO,
  *  24.2-EVO versions before 24.2R2-EVO, 
  *  24.4-EVO versions before 24.4R2-EVO.

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VendorJuniper Networks
Product Junos OS
Default Statusunaffected
Version < 21.2R3-S9
Version 0
Status affected
Version < 21.4R3-S11
Version 21.4
Status affected
Version < 22.2R3-S7
Version 22.2
Status affected
Version < 22.4R3-S7
Version 22.4
Status affected
Version < 23.2R2-S4
Version 23.2
Status affected
Version < 23.4R2-S4
Version 23.4
Status affected
Version < 24.2R2
Version 24.2
Status affected
Version < 24.4R1-S2, 24.4R2
Version 24.4
Status affected
VendorJuniper Networks
Product Junos OS Evolved
Default Statusunaffected
Version < 22.2R3-S7-EVO
Version 0
Status affected
Version < 22.4R3-S7-EVO
Version 22.4-EVO
Status affected
Version < 23.2R2-S4-EVO
Version 23.2-EVO
Status affected
Version < 23.4R2-S4-EVO
Version 23.4-EVO
Status affected
Version < 24.2R2-EVO
Version 24.2-EVO
Status affected
Version < 24.4R2-EVO
Version 24.4-EVO
Status affected
Zu dieser CVE wurde keine CISA KEV oder CERT.AT-Warnung gefunden.
EPSS Metriken
Type Source Score Percentile
EPSS FIRST.org 0.02% 0.035
CVSS Metriken
Source Base Score Exploit Score Impact Score Vector string
sirt@juniper.net 5.5 1.8 3.6
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
sirt@juniper.net 6.8 0 0
CVSS:4.0/AV:L/AC:L/AT:N/PR:L/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:L/E:X/CR:X/IR:X/AR:X/MAV:X/MAC:X/MAT:X/MPR:X/MUI:X/MVC:X/MVI:X/MVA:X/MSC:X/MSI:X/MSA:X/S:X/AU:Y/R:A/V:X/RE:M/U:X
CWE-401 Missing Release of Memory after Effective Lifetime

The product does not sufficiently track and release allocated memory after it has been used, which slowly consumes remaining memory.