Buffer Over-read in Junos OS Evolved and Juniper Junos OS - CVE-2025-60003
Published: January 19, 2026
Vulnerability identifier: #VU121662
CSH Severity: Medium
CVSS v4.0: CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:U/U:Green
CVE-ID: CVE-2025-60003
CWE-ID: CWE-126
Exploitation vector: Remote access
Exploit availability:
No public exploit available
Vendor: Juniper Networks, Inc.
Affected software:
Junos OS Evolved
Juniper Junos OS
Junos OS Evolved
Juniper Junos OS
Detailed vulnerability description
The vulnerability allows a remote non-authenticated attacker to perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.
A Buffer Over-read 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 device receives a BGP update with a set of specific optional transitive attributes over an established peering session, rpd will crash and restart when attempting to advertise the received information to another peer.
How to mitigate CVE-2025-60003
Install updates from vendor's website.