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CVE-2025-59960

Published: Jan 15, 2026

Modified: Jan 16, 2026

PUBLISHED

CVSS v3.1

7.4

HIGH

Description

An Improper Check for Unusual or Exceptional Conditions vulnerability in the Juniper DHCP service (jdhcpd) of Juniper Networks Junos OS and Junos OS Evolved allows a DHCP client in one subnet to exhaust the address pools of other subnets, leading to a Denial of Service (DoS) on the downstream DHCP server. By default, the DHCP relay agent inserts its own Option 82 information when forwarding client requests, optionally replacing any Option 82 information provided by the client. When a specific DHCP DISCOVER is received in 'forward-only' mode with Option 82, the device should drop the message unless 'trust-option82' is configured. Instead, the DHCP relay forwards these packets to the DHCP server unmodified, which uses up addresses in the DHCP server's address pool, ultimately leading to address pool exhaustion. This issue affects Junos OS:  * all versions before 21.2R3-S10, * from 21.4 before 21.4R3-S12, * all versions of 22.2, * from 22.4 before 22.4R3-S8,  * from 23.2 before 23.2R2-S5,  * from 23.4 before 23.4R2-S6,  * from 24.2 before 24.2R2-S2,  * from 24.4 before 24.4R2,  * from 25.2 before 25.2R1-S1, 25.2R2. Junos OS Evolved: * all versions before 21.4R3-S12-EVO,  * all versions of 22.2-EVO, * from 22.4 before 22.4R3-S8-EVO,  * from 23.2 before 23.2R2-S5-EVO,  * from 23.4 before 23.4R2-S6-EVO,  * from 24.2 before 24.2R2-S2-EVO,  * from 24.4 before 24.4R2-EVO,  * from 25.2 before 25.2R1-S1-EVO, 25.2R2-EVO.

VendorProductVersions

Juniper Networks

Junos OS

affected
0 - < 21.2R3-S10
affected
21.4 - < 21.4R3-S12
affected
22.2 - < 22.2*
affected
22.4 - < 22.4R3-S8
affected
23.2 - < 23.2R2-S5

+4 more versions

Juniper Networks

Junos OS Evolved

affected
0 - < 21.4R3-S12-EVO
affected
22.2 - < 22.2*
affected
22.4 - < 22.4R3-S8-EVO
affected
23.2 - < 23.2R2-S5-EVO
affected
23.4 - < 23.4R2-S6-EVO

+3 more versions

Weaknesses (CWE)

CVSS v3.1 Details

CVSS v3.1 Vector

CVSS:3.1/AV:A/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:N/I:N/A:H

Attack Vector

Adjacent

Attack Complexity

Low

Privileges Required

None

User Interaction

None

Scope

Changed

Confidentiality

None

Integrity

None

Availability

High

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