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Exploitation unknown; this catalogue does not assess exploitation. ## Source facts (JSON-quoted data) CNA source text (English) id: "CVE-2025-59961" idYear: 2025 status: "PUBLISHED" publishedAt: "2026-01-15T20:14:43.508Z" updatedAt: "2026-01-15T21:08:37.387Z" 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-2025-59961" json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2025-59961.json" sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2025-59961" title: "Junos OS and Junos OS Evolved: Unix socket used to control the jdhcpd process is world-writable" summary: "An Incorrect Permission Assignment for Critical Resource vulnerability in the Juniper DHCP daemon (jdhcpd) of Juniper Networks Junos OS and Junos OS Evolved allows a local, low-privileged user to write to the Unix socket used to manage the jdhcpd process, resulting in complete control over the resource.\n\nThis vulnerability allows any low-privileged user logged into the system to connect to the Unix socket and issue commands to manage the DHCP service, in essence, taking administrative control of the local DHCP server or DHCP relay.\n\nThis issue affects:\n Junos OS: \n * all versions before 21.2R3-S10,\n * all versions of 22.2,\n * from 21.4 before 21.4R3-S12,\n * from 22.4 before 22.4R3-S8,\n * from 23.2 before 23.2R2-S5, \n * from 23.4 before 23.4R2-S6, \n * from 24.2 before 24.2R2-S2, \n * from 24.4 before 24.4R2, \n * from 25.2 before 25.2R1-S1, 25.2R2; \n\n\n\nJunos OS Evolved: \n * all versions before 22.4R3-S8-EVO, \n * from 23.2 before 23.2R2-S5-EVO, \n * from 23.4 before 23.4R2-S6-EVO, \n * from 24.2 before 24.2R2-S2-EVO, \n * from 24.4 before 24.4R2-EVO, \n * from 25.2 before 25.2R1-S1-EVO, 25.2R2-EVO." affected: [{"versions":[{"version":"0","status":"affected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"21.2R3-S10"},{"version":"21.4","status":"affected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"21.4R3-S12"},{"version":"22.2","status":"affected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"22.2*"},{"version":"22.4","status":"affected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"22.4R3-S8"},{"version":"23.2","status":"affected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"23.2R2-S5"},{"version":"23.4","status":"affected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"23.4R2-S6"},{"version":"24.2","status":"affected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"24.2R2-S2"},{"version":"24.4","status":"affected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"24.4R2"},{"version":"25.2","status":"affected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"25.2R1-S1, 25.2R2"}],"vendor":"Juniper Networks","product":"Junos OS","defaultStatus":"unaffected"},{"versions":[{"version":"0","status":"affected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"22.4R3-S8-EVO"},{"version":"23.2","status":"affected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"23.2R2-S5-EVO"},{"version":"23.4","status":"affected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"23.4R2-S6-EVO"},{"version":"24.2","status":"affected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"24.2R2-S2-EVO"},{"version":"24.4","status":"affected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"24.4R2-EVO"},{"version":"25.2","status":"affected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"25.2R1-S1-EVO, 25.2R2-EVO"}],"vendor":"Juniper Networks","product":"Junos OS Evolved","defaultStatus":"unaffected"}] ## Source licences and attribution CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities: https://www.cisa.gov/known-exploited-vulnerabilities-catalog (US government work) GitHub Advisory Database: https://github.com/advisories (CC BY 4.0) Have I Been Pwned: https://haveibeenpwned.com/ (CC BY 4.0) CVE Program (CVE records): https://www.cve.org/Legal/TermsOfUse (CVE Terms of Use) Copyright © 1999-2026, The MITRE Corporation. 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