CVE-2022-22207

Summary

A Use After Free vulnerability in the Advanced Forwarding Toolkit (AFT) manager process (aftmand) of Juniper Networks Junos OS allows an unauthenticated networked attacker to cause a kernel crash due to intensive polling of Abstracted Fabric (AF) interface statistics and thereby a Denial of Service (DoS). Continued gathering of AF interface statistics will create a sustained Denial of Service (DoS) condition. This issue affects Juniper Networks Junos OS on MX Series: 20.1 versions later than 20.1R1; 20.2 versions prior to 20.2R3-S5; 20.3 versions prior to 20.3R3-S4; 20.4 versions prior to 20.4R3; 21.1 versions prior to 21.1R2; 21.2 versions prior to 21.2R2.

Affected Software

VendorProductVersion RangeStatus
Juniper NetworksJunos OS20.1R1 < 20.1*affected
Juniper NetworksJunos OS20.2 < 20.2R3-S5affected
Juniper NetworksJunos OS20.3 < 20.3R3-S4affected
Juniper NetworksJunos OS20.4 < 20.4R3affected
Juniper NetworksJunos OS21.1 < 21.1R2affected
Juniper NetworksJunos OS21.2 < 21.2R2affected

Weaknesses

  • CWE-416: CWE-416 Use After Free
  • Denial of Service (DoS)

Workarounds

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.

ADP Enrichment

CVE Program Container

Additional References

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