CVE-2022-22164CWE-665

Junos OS Evolved: Telnet service may be enabled when it is expected to be disabled.

Medium · published January 19, 2022

CVSS v3.1
6.5
EPSS
1%
Percentile
52.7
In the wild
Unconfirmed
What it is

An Improper Initialization vulnerability in Juniper Networks Junos OS Evolved may cause a commit operation for disabling the telnet service to not take effect as expected, resulting in the telnet service staying enabled. When it is not intended to be operating on the device, an administrator can issue the following command to verify whether telnet is operating in the background: user@device > show system connections | grep :23 tcp 0 0 0.0.0.0:23 0.0.0.0:* LISTEN 20879/xinetd This issue affects: Juniper Networks Junos OS Evolved All versions prior to 20.4R2-S2-EVO; 21.1 version 21.1R1-EVO and later versions; 21.2 versions prior to 21.2R2-EVO.

The record
Technical detail
CVSS v3.1
6.5 · MEDIUM
Vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:N
CVSS v4.0
Not supplied
EPSS
0.00702 · 52.7th percentile
Weakness
CWE-665 · Improper Initialization
Published
2022-01-19T00:21Z
EPSS history
Timeline
  • 19 JAN 00:21Z
    Junos OS Evolved: Telnet service may be enabled when it is expected to be disabled.
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