Riskcovery

CVE-2025-52989

Junos OS and Junos OS Evolved: Annotate configuration command can be used to change the configuration

State
Published
Severity
6.8 Medium
Published
Jul 11, 2025
Updated
Sep 24, 2025
Reserved
Jun 23, 2025

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Description

An Improper Neutralization of Delimiters vulnerability in the UI of Juniper Networks Junos OS and Junos OS Evolved allows a local, authenticated attacker with high privileges to modify the system configuration.

A user with limited configuration and commit permissions, using a specifically crafted annotate configuration command, can change any part of the device configuration.

This issue affects:

Junos OS:

* all versions before 22.2R3-S7, * 22.4 versions before 22.4R3-S7, * 23.2 versions before 23.2R2-S4, * 23.4 versions before 23.4R2-S4, * 24.2 versions before 24.2R2-S1, * 24.4 versions before 24.4R1-S2, 24.4R2;

Junos OS Evolved:

* all versions before 22.4R3-S7-EVO, * 23.2-EVO versions before 23.2R2-S4-EVO, * 23.4-EVO versions before 23.4R2-S5-EVO,  * 24.2-EVO versions before 24.2R2-S1-EVO

* 24.4-EVO versions before 24.4R2-EVO.

Scores

CVSSScoreVectorSource
4.06.8 MediumCVSS:4.0/AV:L/AC:L/AT:N/PR:H/UI:N/VC:N/VI:H/VA:L/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/R:U/RE:Mjuniper
3.15.1 MediumCVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:Ljuniper

Weaknesses

  • CWE-140 Improper Neutralization of Delimiters

Affected Products

ProductVersions
Junos OSJuniper Networks
  • before 22.2R3-S7Affected
  • 22.4 to before 22.4R3-S7Affected
  • 23.2 to before 23.2R2-S4Affected
  • 23.4 to before 23.4R2-S4Affected
  • 24.2 to before 24.2R2-S1Affected
  • 24.4 to before 24.4R1-S2, 24.4R2Affected
Junos OS EvolvedJuniper Networks
  • before 22.4R3-S7-EVOAffected
  • 23.2-EVO to before 23.2R2-S4-EVOAffected
  • 23.4-EVO to before 23.4R2-S5-EVOAffected
  • 24.2-EVO to before 24.2R2-S1-EVOAffected
  • 24.4-EVO to before 24.4R2-EVOAffected

References

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