CVE Vulnerabilities

CVE-2025-59967

NULL Pointer Dereference

Published: Oct 09, 2025 | Modified: Oct 09, 2025
CVSS 3.x
N/A
Source:
NVD
CVSS 2.x
RedHat/V2
RedHat/V3
Ubuntu

A NULL Pointer Dereference vulnerability in the PFE management daemon (evo-pfemand) of Juniper Networks Junos OS Evolved on ACX7024, ACX7024X, ACX7100-32C, ACX7100-48L, ACX7348, ACX7509 devices allows an unauthenticated, adjacent attacker to cause a

Denial-of-Service (DoS).

Whenever specific valid multicast traffic is received on any layer 3 interface the evo-pfemand process crashes and restarts.

Continued receipt of specific valid multicast traffic results in a sustained Denial of Service (DoS) attack. This issue affects Junos OS Evolved on ACX7024, ACX7024X, ACX7100-32C, ACX7100-48L, ACX7348, ACX7509: 

  • from 23.2R2-EVO before 23.2R2-S4-EVO, 
  • from 23.4R1-EVO before 23.4R2-EVO.

This issue affects IPv4 and IPv6.

This issue does not affect Junos OS Evolved ACX7024, ACX7024X, ACX7100-32C, ACX7100-48L, ACX7348, ACX7509 versions before 23.2R2-EVO.

Weakness

The product dereferences a pointer that it expects to be valid but is NULL.

Potential Mitigations

References