Junos OS and Junos OS Evolved: An rpd crash can occur due to memory corruption caused by flapping BGP sessions

published 2022-10-18 4 y ago modified 2026-06-17 4 mo ago also EUVD-2022-27355

cvss: 5.9; version 3.1, CNA
cisa kev: Not listed; not in CISA's catalog
epss: 0.5%; EPSS 0.5% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 44%
public exploits: 0; none known

A Use After Free vulnerability in the Routing Protocol Daemon (rdp) of Juniper Networks Junos OS and Junos OS Evolved allows an unauthenticated network-based attacker to cause Denial of Service (DoS). When a BGP session flap happens, a Use After Free of a memory location that was assigned to another object can occur, which will lead to an rpd crash. This is a race condition that is outside of the attacker's control and cannot be deterministically exploited. Continued flapping of BGP sessions can create a sustained Denial of Service (DoS) condition. This issue affects Juniper Networks Junos OS: All versions prior to 18.4R2-S9, 18.4R3-S11; 19.1 versions prior to 19.1R3-S8; 19.2 version 19.2R1 and later versions; 19.3 versions prior to 19.3R3-S5; 19.4 versions prior to 19.4R2-S6, 19.4R3-S6; 20.1 version 20.1R1 and later versions; 20.2 versions prior to 20.2R3-S3; 20.3 versions prior to 20.3R3-S2; 20.4 versions prior to 20.4R3-S1; 21.1 versions prior to 21.1R3-S3; 21.2 versions prior to 21.2R2-S1, 21.2R3. Juniper Networks Junos OS Evolved All versions prior to 20.4R3-S4-EVO; 21.1-EVO versions prior to 21.1R3-S2-EVO; 21.2-EVO versions prior to 21.2R3-EVO; 21.3-EVO versions prior to 21.3R2-EVO.

Patch / fix

fixed in 2

Juniper Networks Junos OS 18.4R2-S9, 18.4R3-S11, 19.1R3-S8, 19.3R3-S5, 19.4R2-S6, 19.4R3-S6, 20.2R3-S3, 20.3R3-S2, 20.4R3-S1, 21.1R3-S3, 21.2R2-S1, 21.2R3
Juniper Networks Junos OS Evolved 20.4R3-S4-EVO, 21.1R3-S2-EVO, 21.2R3-EVO, 21.3R2-EVO

CISA SSVC

Exploitation: none
Automatable: no
Technical impact: partial
Assessed: 17 mo ago (2025-05-12)

Exploit prediction

0.52% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 44% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-08).

CVSS scores

assigned by	version	score	vector
CNA	3.1	5.9	CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Affected products

Juniper Networks Junos OS
Juniper Networks Junos OS Evolved

Classification

Weakness

CWE-416 Use After Free
CWE-362 Concurrent Execution using Shared Resource with Improper Synchronization

References

kb.juniper.net /JSA69879
vendor-advisory

Sources

CVE List CVE-2022-22208
NVD CVE-2022-22208

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Summary