CVE-2022-22161
Junos OS: MX104 might become unresponsive if the out-of-band management port receives a flood of traffic
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- juniper
Description
An Uncontrolled Resource Consumption vulnerability in the kernel of Juniper Networks Junos OS allows an unauthenticated network based attacker to cause 100% CPU load and the device to become unresponsive by sending a flood of traffic to the out-of-band management ethernet port. Continued receipted of a flood will create a sustained Denial of Service (DoS) condition. Once the flood subsides the system will recover by itself. An indication that the system is affected by this issue would be that an irq handled by the fman process is shown to be using a high percentage of CPU cycles like in the following example output: user@host> show system processes extensive ... PID USERNAME PRI NICE SIZE RES STATE TIME WCPU COMMAND 31 root -84 -187 0K 16K WAIT 22.2H 56939.26% irq96: fman0 This issue affects Juniper Networks Junos OS: All versions prior to 18.3R3-S6; 18.4 versions prior to 18.4R2-S9, 18.4R3-S9; 19.1 versions prior to 19.1R2-S3, 19.1R3-S7; 19.2 versions prior to 19.2R1-S7, 19.2R3-S3; 19.3 versions prior to 19.3R2-S7, 19.3R3-S4; 19.4 versions prior to 19.4R2-S5, 19.4R3-S5; 20.1 versions prior to 20.1R3-S1; 20.2 versions prior to 20.2R3-S2; 20.3 versions prior to 20.3R3-S1; 20.4 versions prior to 20.4R2-S2, 20.4R3; 21.1 versions prior to 21.1R2; 21.2 versions prior to 21.2R1-S1, 21.2R2.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| juniperCNA (assigner) | 3.1 | High7.5 | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H |
| NVDNVD · Modified | 3.1 | High7.5 | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 0.97% · top 38% of all CVEs (6 Nov 2026)
The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: High 7.5.
Weakness
- CWE-400 Uncontrolled Resource Consumption (opens in a new tab)All about CWE-400 and its CVEs
- Denial of Service (DoS)
Affected products
- affected unspecified – < 18.3R3-S6
- affected 18.4 – < 18.4R2-S9, 18.4R3-S9
- affected 19.1 – < 19.1R2-S3, 19.1R3-S7
- affected 19.2 – < 19.2R1-S7, 19.2R3-S3
- affected 19.3 – < 19.3R2-S7, 19.3R3-S4
- affected 19.4 – < 19.4R2-S5, 19.4R3-S5
- affected 20.1 – < 20.1R3-S1
- affected 20.2 – < 20.2R3-S2
- affected 20.3 – < 20.3R3-S1
- affected 20.4 – < 20.4R2-S2, 20.4R3
- affected 21.1 – < 21.1R2
- affected 21.2 – < 21.2R1-S1, 21.2R2
What to do
Solution: The following software releases have been updated to resolve this specific issue: 18.3R3-S6, 18.4R2-S9, 18.4R3-S9, 19.1R2-S3, 19.1R3-S7, 19.2R1-S7, 19.2R3-S3, 19.3R2-S7, 19.3R3-S4, 19.4R2-S5, 19.4R3-S5, 20.1R3-S1, 20.2R3-S2, 20.3R3-S1, 20.4R2-S2, 20.4R3, 21.1R2, 21.2R1-S1, 21.2R2, 21.3R1, and all subsequent releases.
Workaround: There are no viable workarounds for this issue.
Exploitation: Juniper SIRT is not aware of any malicious exploitation of this vulnerability.
References (1)
- https://kb.juniper.net/JSA11269 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
Sources
The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.
- CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
- CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
- NVD (opens in a new tab)
- FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
- OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
- GitHub Advisories (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
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