Uncontrolled Resource Consumption in Juniper OS CFM (before 23.4R2-S4-EVO) DoS
CVE-2025-52961 Published on October 9, 2025
Junos OS Evolved: PTX Series except PTX10003: An unauthenticated adjacent attacker sending specific valid traffic can cause a memory leak in cfmman leading to FPC crash and restart
An Uncontrolled Resource Consumption vulnerability in the Connectivity Fault Management (CFM) daemon and the Connectivity Fault Management Manager (cfmman) of Juniper Networks Junos OS Evolved on PTX10001-36MR, PTX10002-36QDD, PTX10004, PTX10008, PTX10016 allows an unauthenticated, adjacent attacker to cause a Denial-of-Service (DoS).
An attacker on an adjacent device sending specific valid traffic can cause cfmd to spike the CPU to 100% and cfmman's memory to leak, eventually to cause the FPC crash and restart.
Continued receipt and processes of these specific valid packets will sustain the Denial of Service (DoS) condition.
An indicator of compromise is to watch for an increase in cfmman memory rising over time by issuing the following command and evaluating the RSS number. If the RSS is growing into GBs then consider restarting the device to temporarily clear memory.
user@device> show system processes node fpc<num> detail | match cfmman
Example:
show system processes node fpc0 detail | match cfmman
F S UID PID PPID PGID SID C PRI NI ADDR SZ WCHAN RSS PSR STIME TTY TIME CMD
4 S root 15204 1 15204 15204 0 80 0 - 90802 - 113652 4 Sep25 ? 00:15:28 /usr/bin/cfmman -p /var/pfe -o -c /usr/conf/cfmman-cfg-active.xml
This issue affects Junos OS Evolved on PTX10001-36MR, PTX10002-36QDD, PTX10004, PTX10008, PTX10016:
* from 23.2R1-EVO before 23.2R2-S4-EVO,
* from 23.4 before 23.4R2-S4-EVO,
* from 24.2 before 24.2R2-EVO,
* from 24.4 before 24.4R1-S2-EVO, 24.4R2-EVO.
This issue does not affect Junos OS Evolved on PTX10001-36MR, PTX10002-36QDD, PTX10004, PTX10008, PTX10016 before 23.2R1-EVO.
Vulnerability Analysis
Weakness Type
What is a Resource Exhaustion Vulnerability?
The software does not properly control the allocation and maintenance of a limited resource, thereby enabling an actor to influence the amount of resources consumed, eventually leading to the exhaustion of available resources.
CVE-2025-52961 has been classified to as a Resource Exhaustion vulnerability or weakness.
Products Associated with CVE-2025-52961
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Affected Versions
Juniper Networks Junos OS Evolved:- Version 23.2R1-EVO and below 23.2R2-S4-EVO is affected.
- Version 23.4-EVO and below 23.4R2-S4-EVO is affected.
- Version 24.2-EVO and below 24.2R2-EVO is affected.
- Version 24.4-EVO and below 24.4R1-S2-EVO, 24.4R2-EVO is affected.
- Before 23.2R1-EVO is unaffected.
Exploit Probability
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