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Exploitation unknown; this catalogue does not assess exploitation.

## Source facts (JSON-quoted data)
CNA source text (English)
id: "CVE-2025-21594"
idYear: 2025
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2025-04-09T19:49:41.391Z"
updatedAt: "2025-04-10T13:14:00.650Z"
importedAt: "2026-10-24T01:57:29.455Z"
snapshot: {"id":"cve_2026-10-24_midnight_baseline","at":"2026-10-24T00:00:00.000Z","source":"https://github.com/CVEProject/cvelistV5/releases/tag/cve_2026-10-24_0100Z"}
url: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2025-21594"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2025-21594.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2025-21594"
title: "Junos OS: MX Series: In DS-lite and NAT scenario receipt of crafted IPv6 traffic causes port block"
summary: "An Improper Check for Unusual or Exceptional Conditions vulnerability in the pfe (packet forwarding engine) of Juniper Networks Junos OS on MX Series causes a port within a pool to be blocked leading to Denial of Service (DoS).\n\nIn a DS-Lite (Dual-Stack Lite) and NAT (Network Address Translation) scenario, when crafted IPv6 traffic is received and prefix-length is set to 56, the ports assigned to the user will not be freed.  Eventually, users cannot establish new connections. Affected FPC/PIC need to be manually restarted to recover.\nFollowing is the command to identify the issue: \n\n\n    user@host\u003e show services nat source port-block \n    Host_IP                       External_IP                    Port_Block      Ports_Used/        Block_State/\n                                                               Range             Ports_Total        Left_Time(s)\n    2001::                        x.x.x.x                     58880-59391     256/256*1         Active/-        \u003e\u003e\u003e\u003e\u003e\u003e\u003e\u003eport still usedThis issue affects Junos OS on MX Series: \n\n  *  from 21.2 before 21.2R3-S8, \n  *  from 21.4 before 21.4R3-S7, \n  *  from 22.1 before 22.1R3-S6, \n  *  from 22.2 before 22.2R3-S4, \n  *  from 22.3 before 22.3R3-S3, \n  *  from 22.4 before 22.4R3-S2, \n  *  from 23.2 before 23.2R2-S1, \n  *  from 23.4 before 23.4R1-S2, 23.4R2.\n\n\nThis issue does not affect versions before 20.2R1."
affected: [{"versions":[{"version":"0","status":"affected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"21.2R3-S8"},{"version":"21.4","status":"affected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"21.4R3-S7"},{"version":"22.1","status":"affected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"22.1R3-S6"},{"version":"22.2","status":"affected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"22.2R3-S4"},{"version":"22.3","status":"affected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"22.3R3-S3"},{"version":"22.4","status":"affected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"22.4R3-S2"},{"version":"23.2","status":"affected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"23.2R2-S1"},{"version":"23.4","status":"affected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"23.4R1-S2, 23.4R2"},{"version":"0","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"20.2R1"}],"vendor":"Juniper Networks","product":"Junos OS","platforms":["MX Series"],"defaultStatus":"unaffected"}]

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