Is CVE-2025-59980 in the CISA KEV catalog?

No. CVE-2025-59980 is not currently on the CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities list.

What is the CVSS severity of CVE-2025-59980?

CVE-2025-59980 has a CVSS v3 base score of 6.5 (MEDIUM).

What is the EPSS score for CVE-2025-59980?

CVE-2025-59980 has an EPSS score of 0.28% (20th percentile), estimating the probability of exploitation in the next 30 days.

How do I fix CVE-2025-59980?

Upgrade junos to 22.4 or later.

CVE & CISA-KEV Catalog

CVE-2025-59980

MEDIUM

6.5

CVSS v3

NVD

Description

An Authentication Bypass by Primary Weakness in the FTP server of Juniper Networks Junos OS allows an unauthenticated, network-based attacker to get limited read-write access to files on the device. When the FTP server is enabled and a user named "ftp" or "anonymous" is configured, that user can login without providing the configured password and then has read-write access to their home directory. This issue affects Junos OS: * all versions before 22.4R3-S8, * 23.2 versions before 23.2R2-S3, * 23.4 versions before 23.4R2.

CWE-305

How to fix

Remediation Available

junosNVD

Affected:< 22.4Fixed in:22.4CVE-2025-59980derived from NVD

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 RequiredNone

User InteractionNone

ScopeUnchanged

Impact

ConfidentialityLow

IntegrityLow

AvailabilityNone

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

Exploit Intelligence

0.28%probability of exploitation in 30 days

20thpercentile

Low risk: more likely to be exploited than 20% of all known CVEs.

References

Vendor Advisory1

supportportal.juniper.net

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This product uses NVD data but is not endorsed or certified by the NVD. EPSS scores courtesy of FIRST.org (https://www.first.org/epss). Source: CISA KEV Catalog. Data as of 2026-01-23.