#VU59588 Resource exhaustion in Juniper Junos OS - CVE-2022-22161

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#VU59588 Resource exhaustion in Juniper Junos OS - CVE-2022-22161

Published: January 13, 2022


Vulnerability identifier: #VU59588
Vulnerability risk: Medium
CVSSv4.0: CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:U/U:Green
CVE-ID: CVE-2022-22161
CWE-ID: CWE-400
Exploitation vector: Remote access
Exploit availability: No public exploit available
Vulnerable software:
Juniper Junos OS
Software vendor:
Juniper Networks, Inc.

Description

The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.

The vulnerability exists due to uncontrolled resource exhaustion in the kernel of Juniper Networks Junos OS. A remote non-authenticated attacker can send a huge amount of traffic to the out-of-band management ethernet port  and consume all available CPU resources.


Remediation

Install updates from vendor's website.

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