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CVE-2022-22170
published 2022-01-19

CVE-2022-22170: A Missing Release of Resource after Effective Lifetime vulnerability in the Packet Forwarding Engine (PFE) of Juniper Networks Junos OS allows an…

PriorityP344high7.5CVSS 3.1
AVNACLPRNUINSUCNINAH
EPSS
0.93%
56.6th percentile
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.

Affected

16 ranges
VendorProductVersion rangeFixed in
juniperjunos
juniperjunos
juniperjunos
juniperjunos
juniperjunos
juniperjunos
juniperjunos
juniperjunos
juniperjunos_os
juniper_networksjunos_os>= 19.4 < 19.4R2-S6, 19.4R3-S619.4R2-S6, 19.4R3-S6
juniper_networksjunos_os>= 20.1 < 20.1R3-S220.1R3-S2
juniper_networksjunos_os>= 20.2 < 20.2R3-S320.2R3-S3
juniper_networksjunos_os>= 20.3 < 20.3R3-S120.3R3-S1
juniper_networksjunos_os>= 20.4 < 20.4R320.4R3
juniper_networksjunos_os>= 21.1 < 21.1R321.1R3
juniper_networksjunos_os>= 21.2 < 21.2R221.2R2

CVSS provenance

nvdv3.17.5HIGHCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
nvdv2.05.0MEDIUMAV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
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