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CVE-2022-22232

Published: Oct 18, 2022

Modified: May 9, 2025

PUBLISHED

CVSS v3.1

7.5

HIGH

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.

VendorProductVersions

Juniper Networks

Junos OS

unaffected
unspecified - < 21.4R1
affected
21.4 - < 21.4R1-S2, 21.4R2
affected
22.1 - < 22.1R1-S1, 22.1R2

Weaknesses (CWE)

CWE-476

CVSS v3.1 Details

CVSS v3.1 Vector

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

Attack Vector

Network

Attack Complexity

Low

Privileges Required

None

User Interaction

None

Scope

Unchanged

Confidentiality

None

Integrity

None

Availability

High

References

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