CVE-2022-22170

HIGH

Juniper Networks Junos OS <19.4R2-S6-19.4R3 - DoS

Title source: llm
STIX 2.1

Description

A Missing Release of Resource after Effective Lifetime vulnerability in the Packet Forwarding Engine (PFE) of Juniper Networks Junos OS allows an unauthenticated networked attacker to cause a Denial of Service (DoS) by sending specific packets over VXLAN which cause heap memory to leak and on exhaustion the PFE to reset. The heap memory utilization can be monitored with the command: user@host> show chassis fpc This issue affects: Juniper Networks Junos OS 19.4 versions prior to 19.4R2-S6, 19.4R3-S6; 20.1 versions prior to 20.1R3-S2; 20.2 versions prior to 20.2R3-S3; 20.3 versions prior to 20.3R3-S1; 20.4 versions prior to 20.4R3; 21.1 versions prior to 21.1R3; 21.2 versions prior to 21.2R2. This issue does not affect versions of Junos OS prior to 19.4R1.

Scores

CVSS v3 7.5
EPSS 0.0039
EPSS Percentile 60.0%
Attack Vector NETWORK
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Details

CWE
CWE-772
Status published
Products (5)
juniper/junos 19.4 r1 (18 CPE variants)
juniper/junos 20.1 r1 (11 CPE variants)
juniper/junos 20.2 r1 (11 CPE variants)
juniper/junos 20.3 r1 (6 CPE variants)
juniper/junos 20.4 r1 (4 CPE variants)
Published Jan 19, 2022
Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026