CVE-2022-22212

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

Published Jul 20, 2022 CVSS 3.1 · 7.5 High EPSS < 1% KEV · Not listed
Description
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.

Remediation

Vendor Solution

The following software releases have been updated to resolve this specific issue: 21.2R3-EVO, 21.3R2-EVO, 21.4R1-EVO, and all subsequent releases.


Vendor Workaround

There are no viable workarounds for this issue. To reduce the risk of exploitation of this issue, use access lists or firewall filters to limit access to only trusted networks, hosts and users.

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Advisories

Source ID Title
EUVD EUVD EUVD-2022-27359 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.
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History
Type Values Removed Values Added
Title Junos OS Evolved: A high rate of specific hostbound traffic will cause unexpected hostbound traffic delays or drops Junos OS Evolved: A high rate of specific hostbound traffic will cause unexpected hostbound traffic delays or drops
Weaknesses

Sources

Status
PUBLISHED
Assigner
juniper
Published
Updated
Sep 16, 2024, 8:07 PM
Reserved
Dec 21, 2021, 12:00 AM
Status
Modified
Published
Jul 20, 2022, 3:15 PM
Modified
Jun 17, 2026, 4:28 AM