🛡️ CVE-2022-22232
🟠 CVSS 7.5 — High ✅ No Known Exploit CWE-476 NVD
7.5
CVSS Score
0 Low4 Medium7 High9 Critical10

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.

Details

Severity HIGH
CVSS Score 7.5
CVSS Vector CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
CWE CWE-476
Public Exploit ✅ No
Source NVD
Published 2022-10-18
Updated 2026-06-08
Modified 2024-11-21
Fix URL N/A

Affected Packages

Software From version Fixed in
junos

References

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