CVE-2022-22208
Junos OS and Junos OS Evolved: An rpd crash can occur due to memory corruption caused by flapping BGP sessions
- Published
- Updated
- Reserved
- Assigned by
- juniper
Description
A Use After Free vulnerability in the Routing Protocol Daemon (rdp) of Juniper Networks Junos OS and Junos OS Evolved allows an unauthenticated network-based attacker to cause Denial of Service (DoS). When a BGP session flap happens, a Use After Free of a memory location that was assigned to another object can occur, which will lead to an rpd crash. This is a race condition that is outside of the attacker's control and cannot be deterministically exploited. Continued flapping of BGP sessions can create a sustained Denial of Service (DoS) condition. This issue affects Juniper Networks Junos OS: All versions prior to 18.4R2-S9, 18.4R3-S11; 19.1 versions prior to 19.1R3-S8; 19.2 version 19.2R1 and later versions; 19.3 versions prior to 19.3R3-S5; 19.4 versions prior to 19.4R2-S6, 19.4R3-S6; 20.1 version 20.1R1 and later versions; 20.2 versions prior to 20.2R3-S3; 20.3 versions prior to 20.3R3-S2; 20.4 versions prior to 20.4R3-S1; 21.1 versions prior to 21.1R3-S3; 21.2 versions prior to 21.2R2-S1, 21.2R3. Juniper Networks Junos OS Evolved All versions prior to 20.4R3-S4-EVO; 21.1-EVO versions prior to 21.1R3-S2-EVO; 21.2-EVO versions prior to 21.2R3-EVO; 21.3-EVO versions prior to 21.3R2-EVO.
Timeline
ID reserved
By juniper
- 10 months later
· 10 months later
Published
- 3 years later
· 3 years later
Record updated
Changes after publication (a new score, a public exploit, EPSS crossing 1, 10 or 50 %, leaving KEV) are kept since November 2026; earlier ones are not known.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| juniperCNA (assigner) | 3.1 | Medium5.9 | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H |
| NVDNVD · Modified | 3.1 | Medium5.9 | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 0.52% · top 56% of all CVEs (7 Nov 2026)
- CISA SSVC
- Exploitation: none · Automatable: no · Technical impact: partial
The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: Medium 5.9.
Weakness
Affected products
- affected unspecified – < 18.4R2-S9, 18.4R3-S11
- affected 19.1 – < 19.1R3-S8
- affected 19.2R1 – < 19.2*
- affected 19.3 – < 19.3R3-S5
- affected 19.4 – < 19.4R2-S6, 19.4R3-S6
- affected 20.1R1 – < 20.1*
- affected 20.2 – < 20.2R3-S3
- affected 20.3 – < 20.3R3-S2
- affected 20.4 – < 20.4R3-S1
- affected 21.1 – < 21.1R3-S3
- affected 21.2 – < 21.2R2-S1, 21.2R3
Juniper Networks · Junos OS Evolved
- affected unspecified – < 20.4R3-S4-EVO
- affected 21.1-EVO – < 21.1R3-S2-EVO
- affected 21.2-EVO – < 21.2R3-EVO
- affected 21.3-EVO – < 21.3R2-EVO
What to do
Solution: The following software releases have been updated to resolve this specific issue: Junos OS: 18.4R2-S9, 18.4R3-S11, 19.1R3-S8, 19.3R3-S5, 19.4R2-S6, 19.4R3-S6, 20.2R3-S3, 20.3R3-S2, 20.4R3-S1, 21.1R3-S3, 21.2R2-S1, 21.2R3, 21.3R1, and all subsequent releases. Junos OS Evolved: 20.4R3-S4-EVO, 21.1R3-S2-EVO, 21.2R3-EVO, 21.3R2-EVO, 21.4R1-EVO, 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/JSA69879 (opens in a new tab)x_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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