Product Affected

This issue affects Junos OS 23.4R2-S3, 24.2R2, 24.4R1, and Junos OS Evolved 23.4R2-S2-EVO, 24.2R2-EVO, 24.4R1-EVO.
High

Problem

An Improper Check for Unusual or Exceptional Conditions vulnerability in the routing protocol daemon (rpd) of Juniper Networks Junos OS and Junos OS Evolved allows an unauthenticated, network-based attacker to cause a Denial-Of-Service (DoS).

When an affected system receives a specific BGP EVPN update message over an established BGP session, this causes an rpd crash and restart.

A BGP EVPN configuration is not necessary to be vulnerable. If peers are not configured to send BGP EVPN updates to a vulnerable device, then this issue can't occur.
This issue affects iBGP and eBGP, over IPv4 and IPv6.

This issue affects:
Junos OS:

  • 23.4 versions from 23.4R2-S3 before 23.4R2-S5,
  • 24.2 versions from 24.2R2 before 24.2R2-S1,
  • 24.4 versions before 24.4R1-S3, 24.4R2;

Junos OS Evolved:
  • 23.4-EVO versions from 23.4R2-S2-EVO before 23.4R2-S5-EVO,
  • 24.2-EVO versions from 24.2R2-EVO before 24.2R2-S1-EVO,
  • 24.4-EVO versions before 24.4R1-S3-EVO, 24.4R2-EVO.

 

To be exposed to this issue a BGP peering needs to be configured via:

[ protocols bgp ... neighbor ... ]

 

Juniper SIRT is not aware of any malicious exploitation of this vulnerability.

This issue was found during internal product security testing or research.

Solution

The following software releases have been updated to resolve this specific issue:
Junos OS Evolved: 23.4R2-S5-EVO, 24.2R2-S1-EVO, 24.4R1-S3-EVO, 24.4R2-EVO, 25.2R1-EVO, and all subsequent releases;
Junos OS: 23.4R2-S5, 24.2R2-S1, 24.4R1-S3, 24.4R2, 25.2R1, and all subsequent releases.

This issue is being tracked as 1860302 which is visible on the Customer Support website.

Note: Juniper SIRT's policy is not to evaluate releases which are beyond End of Engineering (EOE) or End of Life (EOL).

Workaround

There are no known workarounds for this issue.

Severity Assessment

Information for how Juniper Networks uses CVSS can be found at KB 16446 [juniper.net], "Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) and Juniper's Security Advisories."

Modification History

2025-10-08: Initial Publication

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