CVE-2022-22173: 2022-01 Security Bulletin: Junos OS: CRL failing to download causes a memory leak and ultimately a DoS (CVE-2022-22173)

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2022-01 Security Bulletin: Junos OS: CRL failing to download causes a memory leak and ultimately a DoS (CVE-2022-22173)

Article ID: JSA11279 SECURITY_ADVISORIES Last Updated: 12 Jan 2022Version: 1.0 Product Affected:

This issue affects all versions of Junos OS.

Problem:

A Missing Release of Memory after Effective Lifetime vulnerability in the Public Key Infrastructure daemon (pkid) of Juniper Networks Junos OS allows an unauthenticated networked attacker to cause Denial of Service (DoS).

In a scenario where Public Key Infrastructure (PKI) is used in combination with Certificate Revocation List (CRL), if the CRL fails to download the memory allocated to store the CRL is not released. Repeated occurrences will eventually consume all available memory and lead to an inoperable state of the affected system causing a DoS.

This issue affects Juniper Networks Junos OS:

• All 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-S5;
• 20.1 versions prior to 20.1R3-S1;
• 20.2 versions prior to 20.2R3-S2;
• 20.3 versions prior to 20.3R3-S1;
• 20.4 versions prior to 20.4R3;
• 21.1 versions prior to 21.1R2, 21.1R3;
• 21.2 versions prior to 21.2R1-S1, 21.2R2.

This issue can be observed by monitoring the memory utilization of the pkid process via:

root@jtac-srx1500-r2003> show system processes extensive | match pki
20931 root 20 0 733M 14352K select 0:00 0.00% pkid

which increases over time:

root@jtac-srx1500-r2003> show system processes extensive | match pki
22587 root 20 0 901M 181M select 0:03 0.00% pkid

To be affected a system would need to be configured with:

[ security pki ca-profile <ca-profile-name> revocation-check crl url <url-name> ]

Juniper SIRT is not aware of any malicious exploitation of this vulnerability.

This issue was seen during production usage.

This issue has been assigned CVE-2022-22173.

Solution:

The following software releases have been updated to resolve this specific issue: 18.3R3-S6, 18.4R2-S9, 18.4R3-S10, 19.1R2-S3, 19.1R3-S7, 19.2R1-S8, 19.2R3-S4, 19.3R3-S4, 19.4R2-S5, 19.4R3-S5, 20.1R3-S1, 20.2R3-S2, 20.3R3-S1, 20.4R3, 21.1R2, 21.1R3, 21.2R1-S1, 21.2R2, 21.3R1, and all subsequent releases.

This issue is being tracked as 1602815.

Workaround:

There are no viable workarounds for this issue.

Implementation:

Software releases or updates are available for download at https://support.juniper.net/support/downloads/

Modification History:

2022-01-12: Initial Publication.

CVSS Score:

7.5 (CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H)

Severity Level:

High

Severity Assessment:

Information for how Juniper Networks uses CVSS can be found at KB 16446 “Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) and Juniper’s Security Advisories.”

Related Links

• KB16613: Overview of the Juniper Networks SIRT Quarterly Security Bulletin Publication Process
• KB16765: In which releases are vulnerabilities fixed?
• KB16446: Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) and Juniper’s Security Advisories
• Report a Security Vulnerability - How to Contact the Juniper Networks Security Incident Response Team
• CVE-2022-22173 at cve.org

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