# cveboard — Historical CVE brief

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Fix information unknown; no fixed version is derived here. Missing information does not prove that no fix exists.
Exploitation unknown; this catalogue does not assess exploitation.

## Source facts (JSON-quoted data)
CNA source text (English)
id: "CVE-2025-21601"
idYear: 2025
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2025-04-09T19:51:36.325Z"
updatedAt: "2025-04-15T20:30:05.134Z"
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-2025-21601"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2025-21601.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2025-21601"
title: "Junos OS: SRX and EX Series, MX240, MX480, MX960, QFX5120 Series: When web management is enabled for specific services an attacker may cause a CPU spike by sending genuine packets to the device"
summary: "An Improper Following of Specification by Caller vulnerability in web management (J-Web, Captive Portal, 802.1X, Juniper Secure Connect (JSC) of Juniper Networks Junos OS on SRX Series, EX Series, MX240, MX480, MX960, QFX5120 Series, allows an unauthenticated, network-based attacker, sending genuine traffic targeted to the device to cause the CPU to climb until the device becomes unresponsive. \n\nContinuous receipt of these packets will create a sustained Denial of Service (DoS) condition.\n\n\n\n\nThis issue affects Junos OS: \n\n\n\n  *  All versions before 21.4R3-S9,\n  *  from 22.2 before 22.2R3-S5,\n  *  from 22.4 before 22.4R3-S4,\n  *  from 23.2 before 23.2R2-S3,\n  *  from 23.4 before 23.4R2-S3,\n  *  from 24.2 before 24.2R1-S1, 24.2R2.\n\n\nAn indicator of compromise is to review the CPU % of the httpd process in the CLI:\ne.g.\n  show system processes extensive | match httpd  PID nobody       52    0    20M    191M select   2   0:01   80.00% httpd{httpd} \u003c\u003c\u003c\u003c\u003c the percentage of httpd usage if high may be an indicator"
affected: [{"versions":[{"version":"0","status":"affected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"21.4R3-S9"},{"version":"22.2","status":"affected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"22.2R3-S5"},{"version":"22.4","status":"affected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"22.4R3-S4"},{"version":"23.2","status":"affected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"23.2R2-S3"},{"version":"23.4","status":"affected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"23.4R2-S3"},{"version":"24.2","status":"affected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"24.2R1-S1, 24.2R2"}],"vendor":"Juniper Networks","product":"Junos OS","packageName":"AppWeb","platforms":["SRX Series","EX Series","MX240","MX480","MX960","QFX5120 Series"],"defaultStatus":"unaffected"}]

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