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Juniper Junos OS: 2025-04 Security Bulletin: Junos OS: MX240, MX480, MX960 with SPC3: An attacker sending specific packets will cause a CPU utilization DoS (JSA96459) (CVE-2025-30649)

Severity
8
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C)
Published
Apr 9, 2025
Added
Apr 10, 2025
Modified
Aug 11, 2025

Description

An Improper Input Validation vulnerability in the syslog stream TCP transport of Juniper Networks Junos OS on MX240, MX480 and MX960 devices with MX-SPC3 Security Services Card allows an unauthenticated, network-based attacker, to send specific spoofed packets to cause a CPU Denial of Service (DoS) to the MX-SPC3 SPUs.

Continued receipt and processing of these specific packets will sustain the DoS condition.

This issue affects Junos OS: * All versions before 22.2R3-S6,
* from 22.4 before 22.4R3-S4,
* from 23.2 before 23.2R2-S3,
* from 23.4 before 23.4R2-S4,
* from 24.2 before 24.2R1-S2, 24.2R2

An indicator of compromise will indicate the SPC3 SPUs utilization has spiked.

For example: 
   user@device> show services service-sets summary
Service sets CPU
Interface configured Bytes used Session bytes used Policy bytes used utilization
"interface" 1 "bytes" (percent%) "sessions" ("percent"%) "bytes" ("percent"%) 99.97 % OVLD <<<<<< look for high CPU usage

Solution

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