CVE-2022-22164

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

Published Jan 19, 2022 CVSS 3.1 · 6.5 Medium EPSS < 1% KEV · Not listed
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.

Remediation

Vendor 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.


Vendor 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.

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Advisories

Source ID Title
EUVD EUVD EUVD-2022-27311 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.
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Status
PUBLISHED
Assigner
juniper
Published
Updated
Sep 16, 2024, 10:46 PM
Reserved
Dec 21, 2021, 12:00 AM
Status
Modified
Published
Jan 19, 2022, 1:15 AM
Modified
Jun 17, 2026, 4:27 AM