Medium [CVE-2025-59959] Untrusted Pointer Dereference vulnerability in the routing protocol daemon (rpd) of Juniper Networks Junos OS and Junos OS…
This medium-severity Juniper Networks advisory covers CVE-2025-59959 affecting Junos, Junos OS, Junos OS Evolved.
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Summary
An Untrusted Pointer Dereference vulnerability in the routing protocol daemon (rpd) of Juniper Networks Junos OS and Junos OS Evolved allows a local, authenticated attacker with low privileges to cause a Denial-of-Service (DoS).
When the command 'show route detail' is executed, and at least one of the routes in the intended output has specific attributes, this will cause an rpd crash and restart. 'show route... extensive' is not affected.
This issue affects:
- all versions before 22.4R3-S8,
- 23.2 versions before 23.2R2-S5,
- 23.4 versions before 23.4R2-S5,
Affected products named by the advisory: EX.
- all versions
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- 22.4R3-S8
- 23.2R2-S5
- 23.4R2-S5
- 24.2R2-S2
- 24.4R2
- 22.4R3-S8-EVO
- 23.2R2-S5-EVO
- 23.4R2-S6-EVO
- 24.2R2-S2-EVO
- 24.4R2-EVO
Official advisory · high-confidence parse· fetched 2 months ago·verify at source
Mitigation
Upgrade to a fixed release: 22.4R3-S8, 23.2R2-S5, 23.4R2-S5, 24.2R2-S2, 24.4R2, 22.4R3-S8-EVO. That is the remediation for this advisory.
The vendor advisory may list additional interim mitigations or workarounds not captured here — review it before change work.
Official advisory · high-confidence parse· fetched 2 months ago·verify at source
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