CVE-2022-22164
Junos OS Evolved: Telnet service may be enabled when it is expected to be disabled.
- Published
- Updated
- Reserved
- Assigned by
- juniper
Description
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.
Timeline
ID reserved
By juniper
- 29 days later
· 29 days later
Published
- 3 years later
· 3 years later
Record updated
Changes after publication (a new score, a public exploit, EPSS crossing 1, 10 or 50 %, leaving KEV) are kept since November 2026; earlier ones are not known.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| juniperCNA (assigner) | 3.1 | Medium6.5 | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:N |
| NVDNVD · Modified | 3.1 | Medium5.3 | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 0.70% · top 47% of all CVEs (7 Nov 2026)
The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: Medium 6.5.
Weakness
Affected products
Juniper Networks · Junos OS Evolved
- affected unspecified – < 20.4R2-S2-EVO
- affected 21.1R1-EVO – < 21.1*
- affected 21.2 – < 21.2R2-EVO
What to do
Solution: The following software releases have been updated to resolve this specific issue: Junos OS Evolved: 20.4R2-S2-EVO, 21.2R2-EVO, 21.3R1-EVO and all subsequent releases.
Workaround: To work around the issue, the xinetd service can be restarted manually using one of the commands below: user@device% systemctl restart xinetd or user@device% systemctl restart services-xinetd Additionally, loopback/firewall filters can be applied to disable remote access to the telnet service.
Exploitation: Juniper SIRT is not aware of any malicious exploitation of this vulnerability.
References (1)
- https://kb.juniper.net/JSA11272 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
Sources
The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.
- CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
- CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
- NVD (opens in a new tab)
- FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
- OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
- GitHub Advisories (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
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