CVE-2022-22220
Junos OS and Junos OS Evolved: Due to a race condition the rpd process can crash upon receipt of a BGP update message containing flow spec route
- Published
- Updated
- Reserved
- Assigned by
- juniper
Description
A Time-of-check Time-of-use (TOCTOU) Race Condition vulnerability in Routing Protocol Daemon (rpd) of Juniper Networks Junos OS, Junos OS Evolved allows a network-based unauthenticated attacker to cause a Denial of Service (DoS). When a BGP flow route with redirect IP extended community is received, and the reachability to the next-hop of the corresponding redirect IP is flapping, the rpd process might crash. Whether the crash occurs depends on the timing of the internally processing of these two events and is outside the attackers control. Please note that this issue also affects Route-Reflectors unless 'routing-options flow firewall-install-disable' is configured. This issue affects: Juniper Networks Junos OS: 18.4 versions prior to 18.4R2-S10, 18.4R3-S10; 19.1 versions prior to 19.1R3-S7; 19.2 versions prior to 19.2R1-S8, 19.2R3-S4; 19.4 versions prior to 19.4R3-S8; 20.2 versions prior to 20.2R3-S3; 20.3 versions prior to 20.3R3-S2; 20.4 versions prior to 20.4R3; 21.1 versions prior to 21.1R2. Juniper Networks Junos OS Evolved: All versions prior to 20.4R2-EVO; 21.1-EVO versions prior to 21.1R2-EVO. This issue does not affect Juniper Networks Junos OS versions prior to 18.4R1.
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)
- 0.54% · top 54% 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
- unaffected unspecified – < 18.4R1
- affected 18.4 – < 18.4R2-S10, 18.4R3-S10
- affected 19.1 – < 19.1R3-S7
- affected 19.2 – < 19.2R1-S8, 19.2R3-S4
- affected 19.4 – < 19.4R3-S8
- affected 20.2 – < 20.2R3-S3
- affected 20.3 – < 20.3R3-S2
- affected 20.4 – < 20.4R3
- affected 21.1 – < 21.1R2
Juniper Networks · Junos OS Evolved
- affected unspecified – < 20.4R2-EVO
- affected 21.1-EVO – < 21.1R2-EVO
What to do
Solution: The following software releases have been updated to resolve this specific issue: Junos OS: 18.4R2-S10, 18.4R3-S10, 19.1R3-S7, 19.2R1-S8, 19.2R3-S4, 19.4R3-S8, 20.2R3-S3, 20.3R3-S2, 20.4R3, 21.1R2, 21.2R1, and all subsequent releases. Junos OS Evolved: 20.4R2-EVO, 21.1R2-EVO, 21.2R1-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/JSA69902 (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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