Riskcovery

CVE-2022-22232

SRX Series: If Unified Threat Management (UTM) Enhanced Content Filtering (CF) is enabled and specific traffic is processed the PFE will crash

State
Published
Severity
7.5 High
Published
Oct 18, 2022
Updated
May 9, 2025
Reserved
Dec 21, 2021

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Description

A NULL Pointer Dereference vulnerability in the Packet Forwarding Engine of Juniper Networks Junos OS on SRX Series allows an unauthenticated, network-based attacker to cause a Denial of Service (DoS). On SRX Series If Unified Threat Management (UTM) Enhanced Content Filtering (CF) is enabled and specific transit traffic is processed the PFE will crash and restart. This issue affects Juniper Networks Junos OS: 21.4 versions prior to 21.4R1-S2, 21.4R2 on SRX Series; 22.1 versions prior to 22.1R1-S1, 22.1R2 on SRX Series. This issue does not affect Juniper Networks Junos OS versions prior to 21.4R1.

Scores

CVSSScoreVectorSource
3.17.5 HighCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:Hjuniper

Weaknesses

Affected Products

ProductVersions
Junos OSJuniper Networks
  • before 21.4R1Not affected
  • 21.4 to before 21.4R1-S2, 21.4R2Affected
  • 22.1 to before 22.1R1-S1, 22.1R2Affected

References

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