⚠ Actively exploited
Added to CISA KEV on 2025-03-13. Federal agencies required to patch by 2025-04-03. Required action: Apply mitigations per vendor instructions, follow applicable BOD 22-01 guidance for cloud services, or discontinue use of the product if mitigations are unavailable..

CVE-2025-21590Improper Isolation or Compartmentalization in Networks Junos OS

Severity
6.7MEDIUMNVD
EPSS
0.8%
top 26.37%
CISA KEV
KEV
Added 2025-03-13
Due 2025-04-03
Exploit
No known exploits
Timeline
PublishedMar 12
KEV addedMar 13
KEV dueApr 3
CISA Required Action: Apply mitigations per vendor instructions, follow applicable BOD 22-01 guidance for cloud services, or discontinue use of the product if mitigations are unavailable.

Description

An Improper Isolation or Compartmentalization vulnerability in the kernel of Juniper Networks Junos OS allows a local attacker with high privileges to compromise the integrity of the device. A local attacker with access to the shell is able to inject arbitrary code which can compromise an affected device. This issue is not exploitable from the Junos CLI. This issue affects Junos OS: * All versions before 21.2R3-S9, * 21.4 versions before 21.4R3-S10, * 22.2 versions before 22.2R3-S6, * 22.4 ve

CVSS vector

CVSS:4.0/AV:L/AC:L/AT:N/PR:H/UI:N/VC:N/VI:H/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N

Affected Packages2 packages

CVEListV5juniper_networks/junos_os21.421.4R3-S10+6
NVDjuniper/junos21.2+7

🔴Vulnerability Details

3
CVEList
Junos OS: An local attacker with shell access can execute arbitrary code2025-03-12
GHSA
GHSA-jwv5-xmf5-mp56: An Improper Isolation or Compartmentalization vulnerability in the kernel of Juniper Networks Junos OS allows a local attacker with high privileges to2025-03-12
VulnCheck
Juniper Junos OS Improper Isolation or Compartmentalization Vulnerability2025

📋Vendor Advisories

2
CISA
Juniper Junos OS Improper Isolation or Compartmentalization Vulnerability2025-03-13
Juniper
CVE-2025-21590: An Improper Isolation or Compartmentalization vulnerability in the kernel of Juniper Networks Junos OS allows a local attacker with high privileges to2025-03-12

🕵️Threat Intelligence

1
Bleepingcomputer
Juniper patches bug that let Chinese cyberspies backdoor routers2025-03-13
CVE-2025-21590 — Networks Junos OS vulnerability | cvebase