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🛡️ CVE-2025-52983 — junos

🟠 CVSS 7.2 — High ✅ No Known Exploit CWE-446 NVD
7.2
CVSS Score
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Description

A UI Discrepancy for Security Feature

vulnerability in the UI of Juniper Networks Junos OS on VM Host systems allows a network-based, unauthenticated attacker to access the device.

On VM Host Routing Engines (RE), even if the configured public key for root has been removed, remote users which are in possession of the corresponding private key can still log in as root.

This issue affects Junos OS:

  • all versions before 22.2R3-S7,
  • 22.4 versions before 22.4R3-S5,
  • 23.2 versions before 23.2R2-S3,
  • 23.4 versions before 23.4R2-S3,
  • 24.2 versions before 24.2R1-S2, 24.2R2.

How this vulnerability can be exploited

This issue can be reached over the network, attack complexity is low, an attacker needs administrative privileges on the target. No user interaction is required. The scope is unchanged, so the impact stays within the vulnerable component. Rated impact: confidentiality high, integrity high, availability high.

CVSS metrics in full

The score comes from this vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

  • Attack vector: Network — reachable from anywhere that can route to the service.
  • Attack complexity: Low — the attack works reliably, with no preparation.
  • Privileges required: High — administrative rights are needed first.
  • User interaction: None — nobody has to be tricked into anything.
  • Scope: Unchanged — the damage stays inside the vulnerable component.
  • Confidentiality impact: High — total loss, or loss the attacker controls.
  • Integrity impact: High — total loss, or loss the attacker controls.
  • Availability impact: High — total loss, or loss the attacker controls.

Weakness class

CVE-2025-52983 is classified as CWE-446: UI Discrepancy for Security Feature. The user interface does not correctly enable or configure a security feature, but the interface provides feedback that causes the user to believe that the feature is in a secure state.

Affected software

CVE-2025-52983 is recorded against 1 package.

  • junos

Timeline and source

Published on 11 July 2025 and last revised on 17 June 2026. No public exploit is currently recorded for this entry. Record sourced from NVD.

References

supportportal.juniper.net
www.juniper.net

Other advisories for this package

junos has other advisories on record. If you are patching this one, these are worth checking on the same host:

Same weakness in other software

These advisories are the same class of weakness (CWE-446: UI Discrepancy for Security Feature) in other software:

Details

Severity HIGH
CVSS Score 7.2
CVSS Vector CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CWE CWE-446
Public Exploit ✅ No
Source NVD
Published 2025-07-11
Updated 2026-08-20
Modified 2026-06-17
Fix URL N/A

Affected Packages

Software From version Fixed in
junos — —

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