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CVE-2026-57025

Junos OS and Junos OS Evolved: EX Series, QFX Series, MX Series: A specific 'show l2-learning/ethernet-switching' command causes l2ald crash

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published
Not listed in CISA KEV
Fix
Fixed in 23.2R2-S7, 23.4R2-S7, 24.2R2, 24.4R1-S2, 23.2R2-S7-EVO, and 3 more
None on Exploit-DB, Metasploit or GitHub
  • Exploitation: none
  • Automatable: no
  • Technical impact: partial

Summary

A Return of Pointer Value Outside of Expected Range vulnerability in the fileio library of Juniper Networks Junos OS and Junos OS Evolved allows a local, low-privilged attacker to cause a Denial-of-Service (DoS). On EX Series, QFX Series and MX Series a low-privileged attacker issuing a specific 'show l2-learning' or 'show ethernet-switching' command will cause an l2ald crash which will lead to a temporary service impact for all layer 2 services until the process has automatically restarted. This issue affects EX Series, QFX Series, MX Series: Junos OS: • all versions before 23.2R2-S7, • 23.4 versions before 23.4R2-S7, • 24.2 versions before 24.2R2, • 24.4 versions before 24.4R1-S2. Junos OS Evolved: • all versions before 23.2R2-S7-EVO, • 23.4 versions before 23.4R2-S8-EVO, • 24.2 versions before 24.2R2-EVO, • 24.4 versions before 24.4R1-S3-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 23.2R2-S7; From 23.4 · fixed in 23.4R2-S7; From 24.2 · fixed in 24.2R2; From 24.4 · fixed in 24.4R1-S2

  • Juniper Networks Junos OS Evolved

    fixed in 23.2R2-S7-EVO; From 23.4 · fixed in 23.4R2-S8-EVO; From 24.2 · fixed in 24.2R2-EVO; From 24.4 · fixed in 24.4R1-S3-EVO

References 1

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