CVE-2025-59974
Published: 09 October 2025
Summary
CVE-2025-59974 is a critical-severity Cross-site Scripting (CWE-79) vulnerability in Juniper Space Security Director. Its CVSS base score is 9.3 (Critical).
Operationally, ranked at the 11.4th percentile by exploit likelihood (below the median); it is not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.
EU & UK References
- 🇪🇺 ENISA EUVD: EUVD-2025-33392
Vulnerability details
An Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation ('Cross-site Scripting') vulnerability in Junos Space Security Director allows an attacker to inject malicious scripts into the application, which are then stored and executed in the context of other users' browsers…
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when they access affected pages.This issue affects Juniper Security Director: * All versions before 24.1R4.
- CWE(s)
Related Threats
No named actor attribution yet. ATT&CK technique mapping in progress for this CVE.
Affected Assets
Mitigating Controls
Likely Mitigating Controls AI
Per-CVE control mapping for this CVE has not run yet; the list below is derived from the weakness types (CWEs) cited in the NVD entry.
Penetration testing submits XSS payloads to web applications, detecting cross-site scripting flaws for subsequent remediation.
Validates web inputs to reject script-related content that could produce XSS.
Output validation against expected content can reject or sanitize script content in generated web pages, reducing XSS exploitability.