CVE-2022-22212 HIGH

CVE-2022-22212: Junos OS Evolved: A high rate of specific hostbound traffic will cause unexpected hostbound traffic delays or drops

Vendor Juniper Networks
Product Junos OS Evolved
Weakness CWE-770 · Uncontrolled resource consumption
Published July 20, 2022
Last update September 16, 2024

CVSS base score

7.5/10
Attack vector Network
Attack complexity Low
Privileges required None
User interaction None
Confidentiality None
Integrity None

CVSS vector

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

What the vulnerability does

01Description

An Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling vulnerability in the Packet Forwarding Engine (PFE) of Juniper Networks Junos OS Evolved allows unauthenticated network based attacker to cause a Denial of Service (DoS). On all Junos Evolved platforms hostbound protocols will be impacted by a high rate of specific hostbound traffic from ports on a PFE. Continued receipt of this amount of traffic will create a sustained Denial of Service (DoS) condition. This issue affects Juniper Networks Junos OS Evolved: 21.2 versions prior to 21.2R3-EVO; 21.3 versions prior to 21.3R2-EVO. This issue does not affect Juniper Networks Junos OS Evolved versions prior to 21.2R1.

Key dates

02Disclosure timeline

July 20, 2022 CVE published
September 16, 2024 Record updated