CVEvulnerability

CVE-2022-22231

7.5 HIGH Published 2022-10-18 Modified 2026-06-17 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2022-10-18
Last modified
2026-06-17
Assigner
[email protected]
CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
7.5 HIGH — CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Weaknesses
CWE-252, CWE-690

Description

An Unchecked Return Value to NULL Pointer Dereference vulnerability in Packet Forwarding Engine (PFE) of Juniper Networks Junos OS 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) and AntiVirus (AV) are enabled together and the system processes specific valid transit traffic the Packet Forwarding Engine (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. This issue does not affect Juniper Networks Junos OS versions prior to 21.4R1.

Affected configurations

• juniper junos 21.4

Related

Weakness · CWE (2)

  • CWE-252 Unchecked Return Value weakness
  • CWE-690 Unchecked Return Value to NULL Pointer Dereference weakness

References