CVE-2022-22177: Junos OS and Junos OS Evolved: After receiving a specific number of crafted packets snmpd will segmentation fault (SIGSEGV) requiring a manual restart.

Severity: high (CVSS 7.5 v3.1)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 1.0% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2022-01-19 · updated 2026-06-17
Weakness: CWE-755

Description

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.

Affected products

Juniper Junos OS: 12.3, 12.3-r1, 12.3-r10, 12.3-r10-s1, 12.3-r10-s2, 12.3-r11 (+222)
Juniper Networks Junos OS Evolved: 21.2, 21.2-r1, 21.2-r1-s1, 21.2-r1-s2, 21.2-r2, 21.2-r2-s1 (+2)

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