CVE-2022-22164

mediumpriority · track · 21EPSS 0.007 · 53 %ileEURUUS

grimoire priorityP3 · Track

Exploitable?

—

no known exploitation

Likely / severe?

0.70% (53rd) EPSS

CVSS 5 · medium

Is it mine?

8 products

Check your exposure

Who says so?

4 sources

cnnvd · enisa_euvd · fstec_bdu · nvd

EPSS · scored 2026-10-27

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.

cvss

Technical severity, 0–10. One row per scoring source.

6.5

010

base score 0–10 · higher = more severe · hover a vector to decode

v2.05mediumAV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:Nprimary · NVD / NIST USexploitability 10 · impact 2.9

v3.15.3mediumCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:Nprimary · NVD / NIST USexploitability 3.9 · impact 1.4

v3.16.5mediumAV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:Nsecondary · FSTEC (BDU) RU

v3.16.5mediumCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:Nsecondary · ENISA EU

v3.16.5mediumCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:Nsecondary · sirt@juniper.net USexploitability 3.9 · impact 2.5

v3.14.9mediumCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N/E:Usecondary · CVSS-BT (t0sche)

weaknesses

The CWE weakness classes this flaw belongs to.

CWE-665USprimaryCWE-665US

affected products (8)

Products and version ranges known to be affected.

Juniper Networks Junos OS Evolved21.1R1-EVO → 21.1*enisa_euvdEU
Juniper Networks Junos OS Evolved21.2 → 21.2R2-EVOenisa_euvdEU
Juniper Networks Junos OS Evolvedunspecified → 20.4R2-S2-EVOenisa_euvdEU
Juniper Networks Inc. Junos OS Evolved≤ 20.4R2-S2-EVOfstec_bduRU
Juniper Networks Inc. Junos OS Evolved21.1 → 21.2R2-EVOfstec_bduRU
juniper junos os evolved= 20.4nvdUScpe:2.3:o:juniper:junos_os_evolved:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
juniper junos os evolved= 21.1nvdUScpe:2.3:o:juniper:junos_os_evolved:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
juniper junos os evolved= 21.2nvdUScpe:2.3:o:juniper:junos_os_evolved:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

also known as (4)

Other names and identifiers for this entity.

sources

Which sources assert this record, and when.

cnnvd enisa_euvd fstec_bdu nvd NVD CVE.org MITRE

published 2022-01-19modified 2026-06-17

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references (7)

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