Unrated severityNVD Advisory· Published Oct 18, 2022· Updated May 12, 2025
SRX Series: If UTM Enhanced Content Filtering and AntiVirus are enabled, and specific traffic is processed the PFE will crash
CVE-2022-22231
Description
An Unchecked Return Value to NULL Pointer Dereference vulnerability in Packet Forwarding Engine (PFE) of Juniper Networks Junos OS allows an unauthenticated, network-based attacker to cause a Denial of Service (DoS). On SRX Series if Unified Threat Management (UTM) Enhanced Content Filtering (CF) and AntiVirus (AV) are enabled together and the system processes specific valid transit traffic the Packet Forwarding Engine (PFE) will crash and restart. This issue affects Juniper Networks Junos OS 21.4 versions prior to 21.4R1-S2, 21.4R2 on SRX Series. This issue does not affect Juniper Networks Junos OS versions prior to 21.4R1.
Affected products
221.4R1 on SRX Series (before 21.4R1-S2, 21.4R2)+ 1 more
- (no CPE)range: 21.4R1 on SRX Series (before 21.4R1-S2, 21.4R2)
- (no CPE)range: 21.4
Patches
Vulnerability mechanics
References
1News mentions
0No linked articles in our index yet.