CVE-2025-21590
Junos OS: An local attacker with shell access can execute arbitrary code
02 Description
Junos OS: An local attacker with shell access can execute arbitrary code
03 Exploitation and scoring
- Exploitation
- Exploited in the wild. Listed in the CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog on 2025-03-13. Federal remediation due 2025-04-03.
- SSVC decision
- ExploitationactiveCISA reports credible evidence of active exploitation.
- AutomatablenoAt least one step from reconnaissance to exploitation cannot be reliably automated.
- Technical ImpacttotalSuccessful exploitation gives total control of the vulnerable component.
- EPSS probability
- 1.73% probability of exploitation activity in the next 30 days.
- EPSS percentile
- Equal to or higher than the score of 77.4% of scored records. A rank, not a probability.
- NVD base score
- 6.7 (CVSS v4.0), scored by the NVD independently of the CNA.
- NVD CVSS vector
- CVSS:4.0/AV:L/AC:L/AT:N/PR:H/UI:N/VC:N/VI:H/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:X/CR:X/IR:X/AR:X/MAV:X/MAC:X/MAT:X/MPR:X/MUI:X/MVC:X/MVI:X/MVA:X/MSC:X/MSI:X/MSA:X/S:X/AU:X/R:X/V:X/RE:X/U:X
- NVD analysis status
- Analyzed. NVD last modified this record on 2026-10-01.
- Red Hat severity
- No Red Hat rating. Red Hat rates the CVEs that affect its products.
Exploit-prediction scores from FIRST. Independent scoring and analysis status from the NVD. Vendor severity from Red Hat. Exploitation assessment and catalog membership from CISA.
04 Metadata
- Published
- 2025-03-12 13:59Z1 YR AGO
- Last updated
- 2026-02-26 19:09Z8 MO AGO
- Reserved
- 2024-12-26
- Assigning CNA
- juniper
- Record state
- PUBLISHED
- Severity
- Medium (CVSS 6.7)
- CNA CVSS vector
- CVSS:4.0/AV:L/AC:L/AT:N/PR:H/UI:N/VC:N/VI:H/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N
- Weaknesses
- CWE-653Improper Isolation or CompartmentalizationClass
- Data version
- 5.2
- Document digest
- 0c7081ef7565da245b2eb67a3e3f579f9eedbd6a70b0fb684307b4e5e366f097
05 Affected products
06 References
07 Remediation
The following software releases have been updated to resolve this specific issue: 21.2R3-S9, 21.4R3-S10, 22.2R3-S6, 22.4R3-S6, 23.2R2-S3, 23.4R2-S4, 24.2R1-S2, 24.2R2, 24.4R1, and all subsequent releases. Please note that this issue is not fixed for all platforms in the releases specified in the solution section. For the following products the fix is only available in these releases: SRX300 Series 21.2R3-S9, 23.4R2-S5*, 24.4R1 SRX550HM 22.2R3-S7* EX4300 Series 21.4R3-S11* (except EX4300-48MP which has fixes available as indicated in the solution) EX4600 21.4R3-S11* (except EX4650 which has fixes available as indicated in the solution) ACX1000, ACX1100, ACX2100, ACX2200, ACX4000, ACX500 21.2R3-S9 MX104 21.2R3-S9 * Future Release