# CVE-2025-60003: Junos OS and Junos OS Evolved: BGP update with a set of specific attributes causes rpd crash

> An unauthenticated attacker can crash the routing daemon via a crafted BGP update if 4-byte AS support is disabled, causing denial of service.

- **Severity:** High 8.7 (`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/AU:Y/R:A/RE:M`)
- **Exploited in the wild:** Not known
- **Login needed:** Not needed
- **Attackable:** Over the internet
- **Victim action needed:** Not needed
- **Fix available:** No
- **Published:** 15 Jan 2026
- **Updated:** 15 Jan 2026
- **Also known as:** GHSA-crj7-7vc6-g6g3

## What is CVE-2025-60003?

CVE-2025-60003 is a high-severity memory corruption vulnerability in Juniper Junos, published on 15 Jan 2026. An attacker can exploit it over the internet without logging in, with no action from the victim.

### Official description

A Buffer Over-read vulnerability in the routing protocol daemon (rpd) of Juniper Networks Junos OS and Junos OS Evolved allows an unauthenticated, network-based attacker to cause a Denial-of-Service (DoS).

When an affected device receives a BGP update with a set of specific optional transitive attributes over an established peering session, rpd will crash and restart when attempting to advertise the received information to another peer.
This issue can only happen if one or both of the BGP peers of the receiving session are non-4-byte-AS capable as determined from the advertised capabilities during BGP session establishment. Junos OS and Junos OS Evolved default behavior is 4-byte-AS capable unless this has been specifically disabled by configuring:

[ protocols bgp ... disable-4byte-as ]

Established BGP sessions can be checked by executing:

show bgp neighbor <IP address> | match "4 byte AS"

This issue affects:

Junos OS: 

  *  all versions before 22.4R3-S8,
  *  23.2 versions before 23.2R2-S5,
  *  23.4 versions before 23.4R2-S6,
  *  24.2 versions before 24.2R2-S2,
  *  24.4 versions before 24.4R2;

Junos OS Evolved: 

  *  all versions before 22.4R3-S8-EVO,
  *  23.2 versions before 23.2R2-S5-EVO,
  *  23.4 versions before 23.4R2-S6-EVO,
  *  24.2 versions before 24.2R2-S2-EVO,
  *  24.4 versions before 24.4R2-EVO.

Weakness: CWE-126 (Buffer Over-read)

## Which versions are affected by CVE-2025-60003?

It affects 2 products.


Products: Juniper Junos, Juniper Junos Os Evolved.

## How do I fix CVE-2025-60003?

No fix has been published for CVE-2025-60003 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.

## Is CVE-2025-60003 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2025-60003 in the wild and no public exploit code.

## Other vulnerabilities in Juniper Junos

- [CVE-2023-36845](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2023-36845/): Juniper Junos OS EX Series and SRX Series PHP External Variable Modification (critical 9.8, exploited in the wild)
- [CVE-2020-1631](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2020-1631/): Juniper Junos OS Path Traversal (high 8.8, exploited in the wild)
- [CVE-2025-21590](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2025-21590/): Juniper Junos OS Improper Isolation or Compartmentalization (medium 6.7, exploited in the wild)
- [CVE-2023-36851](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2023-36851/): Juniper Junos OS SRX Series Missing Authentication for Critical Function (medium 5.3, exploited in the wild)
- [CVE-2023-36844](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2023-36844/): Juniper Junos OS EX Series PHP External Variable Modification (medium 5.3, exploited in the wild)

## Fix prompt for AI coding agents

```text
Check this codebase for CVE-2025-60003 and fix it if it is affected.

What it is: CVE-2025-60003 is a high-severity memory corruption vulnerability in Juniper Junos, published on 15 Jan 2026. An attacker can exploit it over the internet without logging in, with no action from the victim.
Exploitation: There is no known exploitation of CVE-2025-60003 in the wild and no public exploit code.

Affected product: Juniper Junos. No package-level version data is available, so check the vendor advisory linked from the reference page.

Task:
1. Search the dependency manifests and lockfiles (for example package.json, package-lock.json, requirements.txt, poetry.lock, uv.lock, pom.xml, build.gradle, go.mod, Cargo.lock, Gemfile.lock) and any Dockerfiles for the affected packages, including transitive dependencies.
2. If an affected version is in use, upgrade it to the fixed version for its release line with the project's package manager, so the lockfile is regenerated. Prefer the smallest upgrade that fixes it.
3. If there is no fix, or the upgrade would break the build, do not guess: explain the risk and the safest workaround instead.
4. Run the tests and summarise what changed and why.
5. If nothing in the project is affected, say so and change nothing.

Reference: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2025-60003/ (Markdown: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2025-60003/index.md)
```

## Sources

- CVE record: https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2025-60003
- NVD: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-60003
- OSV: https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2025-60003

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From sbomify Insights: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2025-60003/
Summaries are generated and may contain mistakes; the official description above is the record.