Product Affected

This issue affects Junos OS 25.2 and Junos OS Evolved 25.2.
Medium

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 adjacent, unauthenticated attacker sending a specific BGP update over an established BGP session to cause a Denial-of-Service (DoS).

Upon receipt of a specifically malformed non-inet/inet6 unicast BGP update, an RPD crash and restart is triggered, which will cause a complete service outage until routing has reconverged. The rpd crash occurs before the update can be readvertised, so there is no downstream propagation.


This issue affects:

 

  • Junos OS versions 25.2 before 25.2R2;
  • Junos OS Evolved versions 25.2 before 25.2R2-EVO.

 

This issue doesn't affect Junos OS versions before 25.2R1 nor Junos OS Evolved versions before 25.2R1-EVO.

 

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

 

This issue was seen during production usage.

 

This issue has been assigned CVE-2026-33801.

Solution

The following software releases have been updated to resolve this specific issue:
Junos OS: 25.2R2, 25.4R1, and all subsequent releases.
Junos OS Evolved: 25.2R2-EVO, 25.4R1-EVO, and all subsequent releases.

 

This issue is being tracked as 1907528 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

2026-07-08: Initial Publication

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