CVE-2022-22177

high-risk
Published 2022-01-19

A release of illegal memory vulnerability in the snmpd daemon of Juniper Networks Junos OS, Junos OS Evolved allows an attacker to halt the snmpd daemon causing a sustained Denial of Service (DoS) to the service until it is manually restarted. This issue impacts any version of SNMP – v1,v2, v3 This issue affects: Juniper Networks Junos OS 12.3 versions prior to 12.3R12-S20; 15.1 versions prior to 15.1R7-S11; 18.3 versions prior to 18.3R3-S6; 18.4 versions prior to 18.4R2-S9, 18.4R3-S10; 19.1 versions prior to 19.1R2-S3, 19.1R3-S7; 19.2 versions prior to 19.2R1-S8, 19.2R3-S4; 19.3 versions prior to 19.3R3-S4; 19.4 versions prior to 19.4R2-S5, 19.4R3-S6; 20.1 versions prior to 20.1R3-S2; 20.2 versions prior to 20.2R3-S3; 20.3 versions prior to 20.3R3-S1; 20.4 versions prior to 20.4R3; 21.1 versions prior to 21.1R2-S2, 21.1R3; 21.2 versions prior to 21.2R1-S2, 21.2R2. Juniper Networks Junos OS Evolved 21.2 versions prior to 21.2R3-EVO; 21.3 versions prior to 21.3R2-EVO.

Do I need to act?

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0.24% chance of exploitation
EPSS score — low exploit probability
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Not on CISA KEV list
No confirmed active exploitation reported to CISA
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Patch status unknown
Check vendor advisories for fix availability and mitigation guidance
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CVSS 5.3/10 Medium
NETWORK / LOW complexity

Affected Vendors

55
/ 100
high-risk
Severity 21/34 · High
Exploitability 1/34 · Minimal
Exposure 33/34 · Critical