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CVE-2025-52986

Junos OS and Junos OS Evolved: When RIB sharding is configured each time a show command is executed RPD memory leaks

Published
Last modified
published
Not listed in CISA KEV
Fix
Fixed in 21.2R3-S9, 21.4R3-S11, 22.2R3-S7, 22.4R3-S7, 23.2R2-S4, and 8 more
None on Exploit-DB, Metasploit or GitHub
  • Exploitation: none
  • Automatable: no
  • Technical impact: partial

Summary

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.

Timeline

  1. CVE published
  2. CISA SSVC assessment

    Exploitation: none · Automatable: no · Technical impact: partial

  3. Record last updated

Affected versions

  • Juniper Networks Junos OS

    fixed in 21.2R3-S9; From 21.4 · fixed in 21.4R3-S11; From 22.2 · fixed in 22.2R3-S7; From 22.4 · fixed in 22.4R3-S7; From 23.2 · fixed in 23.2R2-S4; From 23.4 · fixed in 23.4R2-S4; From 24.2 · fixed in 24.2R2

  • Juniper Networks Junos OS Evolved

    fixed in 22.2R3-S7-EVO; From 22.4-EVO · fixed in 22.4R3-S7-EVO; From 23.2-EVO · fixed in 23.2R2-S4-EVO; From 23.4-EVO · fixed in 23.4R2-S4-EVO; From 24.2-EVO · fixed in 24.2R2-EVO; From 24.4-EVO · fixed in 24.4R2-EVO

References 1

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