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CVE-2022-22204: Junos OS: MX Series and SRX Series: When receiving a specific SIP packets stale call table entries are created which eventually leads to a DoS for all SIP traff

Noroxi assessment

Priority: Monitor (action score 21/100)

  • The sources we track (CISA KEV, Exploit-DB, Metasploit, Nuclei, GitHub) show no public exploit code or exploitation in the wild.
  • Probability of exploitation in the next 30 days: 0.72% (FIRST EPSS); higher than 53.9% of all records.
  • Anyone who can reach it over the internet can trigger it. No account or password is required. No user action is required. No special conditions are required; it is repeatable.
  • Fixed version: Juniper Networks Junos OS 21.2R3.

Low priority for now. Upgrade to Juniper Networks Junos OS 21.2R3 or later.

Generated automatically from the record's data: CVSS (NVD and CNA), CISA KEV and SSVC, FIRST EPSS, exploit sources, fixed versions. How we calculate it

Primary sources: NVD · CVE.org · FIRST EPSS

An Improper Release of Memory Before Removing Last Reference vulnerability in the Session Initiation Protocol (SIP) Application Layer Gateway (ALG) of Juniper Networks Junos OS allows unauthenticated network-based attacker to cause a partial Denial of Service (DoS). On all MX and SRX platforms, if the SIP ALG is enabled, receipt of a specific SIP packet will create a stale SIP entry. Sustained receipt of such packets will cause the SIP call table to eventually fill up and cause a DoS for all SIP traffic. The SIP call usage can be monitored by "show security alg sip calls". To be affected the SIP ALG needs to be enabled, either implicitly / by default or by way of configuration. Please verify on SRX with: user@host> show security alg status | match sip SIP : Enabled Please verify on MX whether the following is configured: [ services ... rule <rule-name> (term <term-name>) from/match application/application-set <name> ] where either a. name = junos-sip or an application or application-set refers to SIP: b. [ applications application <name> application-protocol sip ] or c. [ applications application-set <name> application junos-sip ] This issue affects Juniper Networks Junos OS on SRX Series and MX Series: 20.4 versions prior to 20.4R3-S2; 21.1 versions prior to 21.1R3-S2; 21.2 versions prior to 21.2R2-S2; 21.2 versions prior to 21.2R3; 21.3 versions prior to 21.3R2; 21.4 versions prior to 21.4R2. This issue does not affect Juniper Networks Junos OS versions prior to 20.4R1. Juniper SIRT is not aware of any malicious exploitation of this vulnerability.

MediumCVSS 5.3 · v3.1—No exploit Fix available
Published
Jul 20, 2022
Updated
Jun 17, 2026
EPSS
0.7% · 53th percentile

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Action score

21

Monitor

Low priority for now.

CVSS
21 / 40 · 5.3 / 10
CISA KEV
0 / 30 · Not listed
EPSS
0 / 30 · 0.7%

CNA vs NVD score

NVD
5.3
CNA · juniper
5.3
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Affected systems

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junipermx10016
junipermx104
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junipermx2008
junipermx2010
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Affected versions

NVD version ranges (for catalog products). Add the product to your stack with a version and matching uses these.

  • juniper junos20.4
  • juniper junos21.1
  • juniper junos21.2
  • juniper junos21.3
  • juniper junos21.4

Versions reported by the vendor

Affected version ranges reported by the assigning authority (juniper). Independent of NVD's CPE analysis and usually ahead of it.

  • Juniper Networks Junos OS

    • unspecified and later · before 20.4R1not affected
    • 20.4 and later · before 20.4R3-S2affected
    • 21.1 and later · before 21.1R3-S2affected
    • 21.2 and later · before 21.2R2-S2affectedfixed in 21.2R3
    • 21.3 and later · before 21.3R2affected
    • 21.4 and later · before 21.4R2affected

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Published before and after this one in the same product

  • ← EarlierCVE-2022-22202Jul 20, 2022 · Junos OS: PTX Series: FPCs may restart unexpectedly upon receipt of specific MPLS packets with certain multi-unit interface configurations
    26Monitor
  • ← EarlierCVE-2022-22203Jul 20, 2022 · Junos OS: EX4600 Series and QFX5000 Series: Receipt of specific traffic will lead to an fxpc process crash followed by an FPC reboot
    26Monitor
  • Later →CVE-2022-22205Jul 20, 2022 · Junos OS: SRX Series: An FPC memory leak can occur in an APBR scenario
    30Monitor

Remediation

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Product / packageFixed versionSource
Juniper Networks Junos OS21.2R3Vendor (CNA)

Exploit status

No known public exploit

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Research context

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Timeline

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No history yet (it accumulates with the daily EPSS job).

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Credits

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Variant candidates

Same product, same weakness class, within 18 months. If the patch missed the root cause, the sibling bug is here.

No nightly-computed relations.

Chain candidates

An authentication bypass and a privilege-requiring bug in the same product, published close together: combined they may become an unauthenticated path.

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Bug bounty scope

No known public program.

Source: bounty-targets-data (public HackerOne, Bugcrowd, Intigriti, YesWeHack listings).

Technical details

Attack conditions

  • Anyone who can reach it over the internet can trigger it.
  • No account or password is required.
  • No user action is required.
  • No special conditions are required; it is repeatable.

If successful

Confidentiality
none
Integrity
none
Availability
low · the service can be disrupted
Attack vector
Network
Attack complexity
Low
Privileges required
None
User interaction
None
Scope
Unchanged
Confidentiality impact
None
Integrity impact
None
Availability impact
Low

Weakness class (CWE)

CWE-401 · Missing Release of Memory after Effective Lifetime

CVSS vector

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L

nvd-primary

Attack context

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Change log

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References

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