CVE-2025-52985 Security feature bypass in Junos OS Evolved
Attackers can bypass firewall filters on Junos OS Evolved if prefix lists exceed ten entries, allowing unauthorized access to management interfaces.
- Exploited in the wild
- Not known
- Login needed
- Not needed
- Attackable
- Over the internet
- Victim action needed
- Not needed
- Fix
- None listed
What is CVE-2025-52985?
CVE-2025-52985 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Juniper Junos Os Evolved, published on 11 Jul 2025. An attacker can exploit it over the internet without logging in, with no action from the victim.
Official description
A Use of Incorrect Operator
vulnerability in the Routing Engine firewall of Juniper Networks Junos OS Evolved allows an unauthenticated, network-based attacker to bypass security restrictions.
When a firewall filter which is applied to the lo0 or re:mgmt interface references a prefix list with 'from prefix-list', and that prefix list contains more than 10 entries, the prefix list doesn't match and packets destined to or from the local device are not filtered.
This issue affects firewall filters applied to the re:mgmt interfaces as input and output, but only affects firewall filters applied to the lo0 interface as output. This issue is applicable to IPv4 and IPv6 as a prefix list can contain IPv4 and IPv6 prefixes. This issue affects Junos OS Evolved:
* 23.2R2-S3-EVO versions before 23.2R2-S4-EVO, * 23.4R2-S3-EVO versions before 23.4R2-S5-EVO, * 24.2R2-EVO versions before 24.2R2-S1-EVO, * 24.4-EVO versions before 24.4R1-S3-EVO, 24.4R2-EVO.
This issue doesn't affect Junos OS Evolved versions before 23.2R1-EVO.
Weakness: CWE-480
Which versions are affected by CVE-2025-52985?
It affects 1 product.
Products include Juniper Junos Os Evolved.
How do I fix CVE-2025-52985?
No fix has been published for CVE-2025-52985 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.
Is CVE-2025-52985 being exploited?
There is no known exploitation of CVE-2025-52985 in the wild and no public exploit code.
Other vulnerabilities in Juniper Junos Os Evolved
- CVE-2026-21902 Junos OS Evolved: PTX Series: A vulnerability allows a unauthenticated, network-based attacker to execute code as root
- CVE-2023-28983 Junos OS Evolved: Shell Injection vulnerability in the gNOI server
- CVE-2025-21599 Denial of service in Junos OS Evolved
- CVE-2024-47502 Junos OS Evolved: TCP session state is not always cleared on the Routing Engine leading to DoS
- CVE-2024-39531 Junos OS Evolved: ACX 7000 Series: Protocol specific DDoS configuration affects other protocols
Sources
Also known as GHSA-c7mr-h37w-h53j.