Severity
High
Analysis Summary
CVE-2025-21589 CVSS:9.8
Juniper Networks Session Smart Router, Session Smart Conductor and WAN Assurance Managed Routers are vulnerable to an authentication bypass using an alternate path or channel vulnerability. A remote attacker could bypass authentication and take administrative control of the device.
CVE-2024-39564 CVSS:7.5
This is a similar, but different vulnerability than the issue reported as CVE-2024-39549. A double-free vulnerability in the routing process daemon (rpd) of Juniper Networks Junos OS and Junos OS Evolved allows an attacker to send a malformed BGP Path attribute update which allocates memory used to log the bad path attribute. This double free of memory is causing an rpd crash, leading to a Denial of Service (DoS). This issue affects: Junos OS: * from 22.4 before 22.4R3-S4.
Impact
- Security Bypass
- Denial of Service
Indicators of Compromise
CVE
CVE-2025-21589
CVE-2024-39564
Affected Vendors
Affected Products
- Juniper Networks Session Smart Router - 5.6.7
- Juniper Networks Session Smart Router - 6.0.8
- Juniper Networks Session Smart Router - 6.2
- Juniper Networks Session Smart Conductor - 6.1
- Juniper Networks Session Smart Conductor - 6.2
- Juniper Networks Session Smart Conductor - 5.6.7
- Juniper Networks Session Smart Conductor - 6.0.8
- Juniper Networks WAN Assurance Managed Routers- 5.6.7
- Juniper Networks WAN Assurance Managed Routers- 6.0.8
- Juniper Networks WAN Assurance Managed Routers- 6.1
- Juniper Networks WAN Assurance Managed Routers- 6.2
- Juniper Networks WAN Assurance Managed Routers- 6.3
- Juniper Networks Junos OS Evolved - 22.4
- Juniper Networks Junos OS - 22.4
Remediation
Refer to Juniper Networks Security Advisory for patch, upgrade, or suggested workaround information.