{"id":"CVE-2025-52954","url":"https://www.cyber-defence.io/tools/cve/CVE-2025-52954","generatedAt":"2026-10-28T09:42:33.950Z","title":"A Missing Authorization vulnerability in the internal virtual routing and forwarding (VRF) of Juniper Networks Junos OS Evolved allows a local, low-privileged user to gain root privileges, leading to a system compromise.","description":"A Missing Authorization vulnerability in the internal virtual routing and forwarding (VRF) of Juniper Networks Junos OS Evolved allows a local, low-privileged user to gain root privileges, leading to a system compromise.\n\nAny low-privileged user with the capability to send packets over the internal VRF can execute arbitrary Junos commands and modify the configuration, and thus compromise the system. \n\nThis issue affects Junos OS Evolved: \n\n\n\n  *  All versions before 22.2R3-S7-EVO, \n  *  from 22.4 before 22.4R3-S7-EVO, \n  *  from 23.2 before 23.2R2-S4-EVO, \n  *  from 23.4 before 23.4R2-S5-EVO, \n  *  from 24.2 before 24.2R2-S1-EVO\n  *  from 24.4 before 24.4R1-S2-EVO, 24.4R2-EVO.","published":"2025-07-11T15:15:26.000Z","lastModified":"2026-06-17T09:37:20.000Z","status":"Analyzed","sourceIdentifier":"sirt@juniper.net","cvss":{"version":"4.0","score":8.5,"severity":"HIGH","vector":"CVSS:4.0/AV:L/AC:L/AT:N/PR:L/UI:N/VC:H/VI:H/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:X/CR:X/IR:X/AR:X/MAV:X/MAC:X/MAT:X/MPR:X/MUI:X/MVC:X/M"},"cwe":["CWE-862"],"affected":["juniper/junos os evolved"],"epss":{"score":0.00171,"percentile":0.06478,"date":"2026-10-27","history":[]},"kev":{"listed":false},"exploits":{"count":0,"verified":false,"firstPublished":null,"source":"Exploit-DB (https://gitlab.com/exploit-database/exploitdb)","entries":[]},"verdict":{"level":"high","text":"High impact if exploited, but EPSS currently rates exploitation as unlikely (0.17%). Schedule it in the normal patch cycle and watch for a rise in EPSS or a public exploit."},"changes":[],"references":[{"url":"https://supportportal.juniper.net/JSA100060","tags":["Vendor Advisory"],"source":"sirt@juniper.net"}],"sources":{"nvd":"https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-52954","epss":"https://www.first.org/epss/","kev":"https://www.cisa.gov/known-exploited-vulnerabilities-catalog","exploitdb":"https://www.exploit-db.com/"},"licence":"CC BY 4.0 — link back to the CVE Explorer if you publish the results; upstream data remains subject to its own terms."}