CVE-2025-59964
Severity
8.7HIGH
EPSS
0.1%
top 69.95%
CISA KEV
Not in KEV
Exploit
No known exploits
Affected products
Timeline
PublishedOct 9
Description
A Use of Uninitialized Resource vulnerability in the Packet Forwarding Engine (PFE) of Juniper Networks Junos OS on SRX4700 devices allows an unauthenticated, network-based attacker to cause a Denial of Service (DoS).
When forwarding-options sampling is enabled, receipt of any traffic destined to the Routing Engine (RE) by the PFE line card leads to an FPC crash and restart, resulting in a Denial of Service (DoS).
Continued receipt and processing of any traffic leading to the RE by the PFE lin…
CVSS 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
Affected Packages2 packages
🔴Vulnerability Details
2CVEList▶
Junos OS: SRX4700: When forwarding-options sampling is enabled any traffic destined to the RE will cause the forwarding line card to crash and restart↗2025-10-09
GHSA▶
GHSA-8cjx-8cpv-m8fr: A Use of Uninitialized Resource vulnerability in the Packet Forwarding Engine (PFE) of Juniper Networks Junos OS on SRX4700 devices allows an unauthen↗2025-10-09
📋Vendor Advisories
1Juniper▶
CVE-2025-59964: A Use of Uninitialized Resource vulnerability in the Packet Forwarding Engine (PFE) of Juniper Networks Junos OS on SRX4700 devices allows an unauthen↗2025-10-09