CVE-2022-22212

Summary

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.

Affected Software

VendorProductVersion RangeStatus
Juniper NetworksJunos OS Evolvedunspecified < 21.2R1-EVOunaffected
Juniper NetworksJunos OS Evolved21.2 < 21.2R3-EVOaffected
Juniper NetworksJunos OS Evolved21.3 < 21.3R2-EVOaffected

Weaknesses

  • CWE-770: CWE-770 Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling
  • 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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