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CVE-2022-22239

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CVE-2022-22239

Published: Oct 18, 2022

Modified: May 10, 2025

PUBLISHED

CVSS v3.1

8.2

HIGH

Description

An Execution with Unnecessary Privileges vulnerability in Management Daemon (mgd) of Juniper Networks Junos OS Evolved allows a locally authenticated attacker with low privileges to escalate their privileges on the device and potentially remote systems. This vulnerability allows a locally authenticated attacker with access to the ssh operational command to escalate their privileges on the system to root, or if there is user interaction on the local device to potentially escalate privileges on a remote system to root. This issue affects Juniper Networks Junos OS Evolved: All versions prior to 20.4R3-S5-EVO; 21.1-EVO versions prior to 21.1R3-EVO; 21.2-EVO versions prior to 21.2R2-S1-EVO, 21.2R3-EVO; 21.3-EVO versions prior to 21.3R2-EVO. This issue does not affect Juniper Networks Junos OS.

VendorProductVersions

Juniper Networks

Junos OS Evolved

affected
unspecified - < 20.4R3-S5-EVO
affected
21.1-EVO - < 21.1R3-EVO
affected
21.2-EVO - < 21.2R2-S1-EVO, 21.2R3-EVO
affected
21.3-EVO - < 21.3R2-EVO

Weaknesses (CWE)

CVSS v3.1 Details

CVSS v3.1 Vector

CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H

Attack Vector

Local

Attack Complexity

Low

Privileges Required

Low

User Interaction

Required

Scope

Changed

Confidentiality

High

Integrity

High

Availability

High

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