Risk | Medium |
Patch available | YES |
Number of vulnerabilities | 1 |
CVE-ID | CVE-2022-22177 |
CWE-ID | CWE-763 |
Exploitation vector | Network |
Public exploit | N/A |
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Juniper Junos OS Operating systems & Components / Operating system Junos OS Evolved Operating systems & Components / Operating system |
Vendor | Juniper Networks, Inc. |
Security Bulletin
This security bulletin contains one medium risk vulnerability.
EUVDB-ID: #VU59634
Risk: Medium
CVSSv3.1: 4.6 [CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L/E:U/RL:O/RC:C]
CVE-ID: CVE-2022-22177
CWE-ID:
CWE-763 - Release of invalid pointer or reference
Exploit availability: No
DescriptionThe vulnerability allows remote attacker to perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.
The vulnerability exists due to release of illegal memory vulnerability in the snmpd daemon. A remote attacker can send specially SNMP packets to the snmpd daemon and crash it, resulting in a denial of service (DoS) attack.
Note, all SNMP version requests are affected.
Install updates from vendor's website.
Vulnerable software versionsJuniper Junos OS: 12.3 - 21.2R1-S1
Junos OS Evolved: 21.2-EVO - 21.3R1-S1-EVO
External linkshttp://kb.juniper.net/InfoCenter/index?page=content&id=JSA11283&cat=SIRT_1&actp=LIST
Q & A
Can this vulnerability be exploited remotely?
Yes. This vulnerability can be exploited by a remote non-authenticated attacker via the Internet.
Is there known malware, which exploits this vulnerability?
No. We are not aware of malware exploiting this vulnerability.