{"id":"CVE-2025-52981","url":"https://www.cyber-defence.io/tools/cve/CVE-2025-52981","generatedAt":"2026-10-28T03:41:59.851Z","title":"An Improper Check for Unusual or Exceptional Conditions vulnerability in the flow processing daemon (flowd) of Juniper Networks Junos OS on SRX1600, SRX2300, SRX 4000 Series, and SRX5000 Series with SPC3 allows an unauthenticated, network-based attacker…","description":"An Improper Check for Unusual or Exceptional Conditions vulnerability in the flow processing daemon (flowd) of Juniper Networks Junos OS on \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSRX1600, SRX2300, SRX 4000 Series, and SRX5000 Series with SPC3\n\n\n\nallows an unauthenticated, network-based attacker to cause a Denial-of-Service (DoS).\n\nIf a sequence of specific PIM packets is received, this will cause a flowd crash and restart.\n\n\nThis issue affects Junos OS:\n\n\n\n  *  all versions before 21.2R3-S9,\n  *  21.4 versions before 21.4R3-S11,\n  *  22.2 versions before 22.2R3-S7,\n  *  22.4 versions before 22.4R3-S6,\n  *  23.2 versions before 23.2R2-S4,\n  *  23.4 versions before 23.4R2-S4,\n  *  24.2 versions before 24.2R2.\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThis is a similar, but different vulnerability than the issue reported as\n\nCVE-2024-47503, published in JSA88133.","published":"2025-07-11T16:15:25.000Z","lastModified":"2026-06-17T09:37:22.000Z","status":"Analyzed","sourceIdentifier":"sirt@juniper.net","cvss":{"version":"4.0","score":8.7,"severity":"HIGH","vector":"CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:L/E:X/CR:X/IR:X/AR:X/MAV:X/MAC:X/MAT:X/MPR:X/MUI:X/MVC:X/M"},"cwe":["CWE-754"],"affected":["juniper/junos"],"epss":{"score":0.00517,"percentile":0.43822,"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 (0.52%). 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/JSA100087","tags":["Vendor Advisory"],"source":"sirt@juniper.net"}],"sources":{"nvd":"https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-52981","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."}