What is CVE-2022-22161?

CVE-2022-22161 is a high-severity vulnerability in Juniper Junos, classified under Uncontrolled Resource Consumption. CVSS score: 7.5/10. Published 2022-01-19.

How severe is CVE-2022-22161?

High severity. CVSS v3 base score is 7.5 out of 10.

Is CVE-2022-22161 known to be exploited?

1 public proof-of-concept repositories are indexed. Not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.

Resource exhaustion in Juniper Junos

CVE-2022-22161

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 th…

Vulnerability class: DoS (Denial of Service)

EPSS: 0.010 (58.1th percentile) — read the EPSS interpretation.

CVSS v3 metric

CVSS v3 base score 7.5 (High). Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H.

Affected products

Juniper Junos — versions 18.3, 18.4, 19.1
Juniper Mx104
Juniper Networks Junos Os — versions unspecified, 18.4, 19.1

Weakness classification (CWE)

CWE-400 — Uncontrolled Resource Consumption

Public proof-of-concept exploits

shahd18/TAPSec-CLI-Tool

References

sirt@juniper.net (x_refsource_CONFIRM, Vendor Advisory)

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2022-22161?: CVE-2022-22161 is a high-severity vulnerability in Juniper Junos, classified under Uncontrolled Resource Consumption. CVSS score: 7.5/10. Published 2022-01-19.
How severe is CVE-2022-22161?: High severity. CVSS v3 base score is 7.5 out of 10.
Is CVE-2022-22161 known to be exploited?: 1 public proof-of-concept repositories are indexed. Not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.