CVE-2023-44187: Juniper Junos OS Evolved

Medium severity, CVSS 5.5. EPSS: 0.2% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

An Exposure of Sensitive Information vulnerability in the 'file copy' command of Junos OS Evolved allows a local, authenticated attacker with shell access to view passwords supplied on the CLI command-line. These credentials can then be used to provide unauthorized access to the remote system. This issue affects Juniper Networks Junos OS Evolved: * All versions prior to 20.4R3-S7-EVO; * 21.1 versions 21.1R1-EVO and later; * 21.2 versions prior to 21.2R3-S5-EVO; * 21.3 versions prior to 21.3R3-S4-EVO; * 21.4 versions prior to 21.4R3-S4-EVO; * 22.1 versions prior to 22.1R3-S2-EVO; * 22.2 versions prior to 22.2R2-EVO.

Affected products

• Juniper Junos OS Evolved: before 20.4 (fixed in 20.4); version 20.4 only; version 21.1 only; version 21.2 only; version 21.3 only; version 21.4 only; …

Published 2023-10-11. Last modified 2026-06-17.