Is CVE-2025-52983 in the CISA KEV catalog?

No. CVE-2025-52983 is not currently on the CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities list.

What is the CVSS severity of CVE-2025-52983?

CVE-2025-52983 has a CVSS v3 base score of 7.2 (HIGH).

What is the EPSS score for CVE-2025-52983?

CVE-2025-52983 has an EPSS score of 0.60% (45th percentile), estimating the probability of exploitation in the next 30 days.

How do I fix CVE-2025-52983?

Upgrade junos to 22.2 or later.

CVE & CISA-KEV Catalog

CVE-2025-52983

HIGH

7.2

CVSS v3

NVD

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.

CWE-446

How to fix

Remediation Available

junosNVD

Affected:< 22.2Fixed in:22.2CVE-2025-52983derived from NVD

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Remediation is compiled from vendor and distribution security advisories. Always confirm against the linked source for your exact version and platform.

CVSS v3 Vector

Exploitability

Attack VectorNetwork

Attack ComplexityLow

Privileges RequiredHigh

User InteractionNone

ScopeUnchanged

Impact

ConfidentialityHigh

IntegrityHigh

AvailabilityHigh

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

Exploit Intelligence

0.60%probability of exploitation in 30 days

45thpercentile

Moderate risk: more likely to be exploited than 45% of all known CVEs.

References

Vendor Advisory1

supportportal.juniper.net

Technical Description1

juniper.net

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CVE-2023-1768	Low	3.7	0.9%	-	-
CVE-2025-8353	Medium	5.9	0.4%	-	Fix

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