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.
Advisories
Source ID Title
EUVD EUVD EUVD-2022-27379 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.
Fixes

Solution

The following software releases have been updated to resolve this specific issue: Junos OS: 21.4R1-S2, 21.4R2, 22.1R1-S1 22.1R2, 22.2R1, and all subsequent releases.


Workaround

There are no known workarounds for this issue.

References
History

Sun, 13 Jul 2025 13:45:00 +0000

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{'score': 0.00215}

epss

{'score': 0.00269}


Fri, 09 May 2025 18:15:00 +0000

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{'options': {'Automatable': 'yes', 'Exploitation': 'none', 'Technical Impact': 'partial'}, 'version': '2.0.3'}


cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: juniper

Published:

Updated: 2025-05-09T18:10:44.844Z

Reserved: 2021-12-21T00:00:00.000Z

Link: CVE-2022-22232

cve-icon Vulnrichment

Updated: 2024-08-03T03:07:49.938Z

cve-icon NVD

Status : Modified

Published: 2022-10-18T03:15:10.340

Modified: 2024-11-21T06:46:26.920

Link: CVE-2022-22232

cve-icon Redhat

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cve-icon OpenCVE Enrichment

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