{"cve":"CVE-2025-21595","nvd":{"published":"2025-04-09T20:15:25.853","modified":"2026-06-17T08:43:48.703","status":"Analyzed","description":"A Missing Release of Memory after Effective Lifetime vulnerability in the Packet Forwarding Engine (PFE) of Juniper Networks Junos OS and Junos OS Evolved allows an adjacent, unauthenticated attacker to cause an FPC to crash, leading to Denial of Service (DoS).\n\nOn all Junos OS and Junos OS Evolved platforms, in an EVPN-VXLAN scenario, when specific ARP packets are received on an IPv4 network, or specific NDP packets are received on an IPv6 network, kernel heap memory leaks, which eventually leads to an FPC crash and restart.\n\nThis issue does not affect MX Series platforms.\nHeap size growth on FPC can be seen using below command.\n\n\nuser@host> show chassis fpc\n                    Temp CPU Utilization (%) CPU Utilization (%) Memory   Utilization (%)\nSlot State           (C) Total Interrupt     1min   5min   15min   DRAM (MB)   Heap   Buffer\n  0 Online           45     3         0       2       2      2       32768      19       0 <<<<<<< Heap increase in all fPCs\n\n\nThis issue affects Junos OS:\n\n  *  All versions before 21.2R3-S7,\n  *  21.4 versions before 21.4R3-S4,\n  *  22.2 versions before 22.2R3-S1, \n  *  22.3 versions before 22.3R3-S1, \n  *  22.4 versions before 22.4R2-S2, 22.4R3.\n\n\nand Junos OS Evolved:\n\n  *  All versions before 21.2R3-S7-EVO,\n  *  21.4-EVO versions before 21.4R3-S4-EVO,\n  *  22.2-EVO versions before 22.2R3-S1-EVO, \n  *  22.3-EVO versions before 22.3R3-S1-EVO, \n\n  *  22.4-EVO versions before 22.4R3-EVO.","cvss_v4":{"vector":"CVSS:4.0/AV:A/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:L","score":7.1},"cvss_v3":{"version":"3.1","vector":"CVSS:3.1/AV:A/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H","score":6.5},"cwes":["CWE-401"],"references":["https://supportportal.juniper.net/JSA96450"],"products":["juniper:junos","juniper:junos_os_evolved"],"source":"nvd","synced_at":"2026-10-19T22:00:57.946988208+00:00"},"epss":{"cve":"CVE-2025-21595","score":0.00256,"percentile":0.17351,"date":"2026-10-31"},"kev":null,"osv":[],"attribution":["This product uses the NVD API but is not endorsed or certified by the NVD.","EPSS scores: FIRST Exploit Prediction Scoring System, https://www.first.org/epss","Known exploited vulnerabilities: CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities Catalog, https://www.cisa.gov/known-exploited-vulnerabilities-catalog","Package advisories: OSV (https://osv.dev), from the GitHub Advisory Database, PyPA, Go, RustSec and other ecosystem databases, under CC-BY 4.0 or CC0","CVE records: the CVE Program's CVE List (https://www.cve.org), under its terms of use (https://www.cve.org/Legal/TermsOfUse). CVE is a registered trademark of The MITRE Corporation; this product is not affiliated with the CVE Program."]}