# cveboard — Historical CVE brief

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Exploitation unknown; this catalogue does not assess exploitation.

## Source facts (JSON-quoted data)
CNA source text (English)
id: "CVE-2025-52961"
idYear: 2025
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2025-10-09T15:40:52.572Z"
updatedAt: "2025-10-09T19:49:35.262Z"
importedAt: "2026-10-24T01:57:39.058Z"
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-2025-52961"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2025-52961.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2025-52961"
title: "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"
summary: "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).\n\nAn 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.\n\nContinued receipt and processes of these specific valid packets will sustain the Denial of Service (DoS) condition.\n\nAn 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.\n \n  user@device\u003e show system processes node fpc\u003cnum\u003e detail | match cfmman\n\nExample: \n\n  show system processes node fpc0 detail | match cfmman \n  F S UID        PID       PPID  PGID   SID   C PRI  NI  ADDR SZ    WCHAN    RSS     PSR STIME TTY          TIME     CMD\n  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\nThis issue affects Junos OS Evolved on PTX10001-36MR, PTX10002-36QDD, PTX10004, PTX10008, PTX10016:\n\n  *  from 23.2R1-EVO before 23.2R2-S4-EVO, \n  *  from 23.4 before 23.4R2-S4-EVO, \n  *  from 24.2 before 24.2R2-EVO, \n  *  from 24.4 before 24.4R1-S2-EVO, 24.4R2-EVO.\n\n\nThis issue does not affect Junos OS Evolved on PTX10001-36MR, PTX10002-36QDD, PTX10004, PTX10008, PTX10016  before 23.2R1-EVO."
affected: [{"versions":[{"version":"23.2R1-EVO","status":"affected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"23.2R2-S4-EVO"},{"version":"23.4-EVO","status":"affected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"23.4R2-S4-EVO"},{"version":"24.2-EVO","status":"affected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"24.2R2-EVO"},{"version":"24.4-EVO","status":"affected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"24.4R1-S2-EVO, 24.4R2-EVO"},{"version":"0","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"23.2R1-EVO"}],"vendor":"Juniper Networks","product":"Junos OS Evolved","platforms":["PTX10001-36MR","PTX10002-36QDD","PTX10004","PTX10008","PTX10016"],"defaultStatus":"unaffected"}]

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