CVE-2020-1619

Junos OS: QFX10K Series, EX9200 Series, MX Series, PTX Series: Privilege escalation vulnerability in NG-RE.

State
Published
Severity
6.0 Medium
Published
Apr 8, 2020
Updated
Sep 17, 2024
Reserved
Nov 4, 2019

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Description

A privilege escalation vulnerability in Juniper Networks QFX10K Series, EX9200 Series, MX Series, and PTX Series with Next-Generation Routing Engine (NG-RE), allows a local authenticated high privileged user to access the underlying WRL host. This issue only affects QFX10K Series with NG-RE, EX9200 Series with NG-RE, MX Series with NG-RE and PTX Series with NG-RE; which uses vmhost. This issue affects Juniper Networks Junos OS: 16.1 versions prior to 16.1R7-S6; 16.2 versions prior to 16.2R2-S11; 17.1 versions prior to 17.1R2-S11, 17.1R3; 17.2 versions prior to 17.2R1-S9, 17.2R3-S3; 17.3 versions prior to 17.3R2-S5, 17.3R3-S7; 17.4 versions prior to 17.4R2-S7, 17.4R3; 18.1 versions prior to 18.1R3-S4; 18.2 versions prior to 18.2R3; 18.2X75 versions prior to 18.2X75-D50; 18.3 versions prior to 18.3R2; 18.4 versions prior to 18.4R2. To identify whether the device has NG-RE with vmhost, customer can run the following command: > show vmhost status Compute cluster: rainier-re-cc Compute Node: rainier-re-cn, Online If the "show vmhost status" is not supported, then the device does not have NG-RE with vmhost.

Scores

CVSSScoreVectorSource
3.16.0 MediumCVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:Njuniper

Weaknesses

  • CWE-264 Permissions, Privileges, and Access Controls
  • CWE-20 Improper Input Validation

Affected Products

ProductVersions
Junos OSJuniper Networks
  • 16.1 to before 16.1R7-S6Affected
  • 16.2 to before 16.2R2-S11Affected
  • 17.1 to before 17.1R2-S11, 17.1R3Affected
  • 17.2 to before 17.2R1-S9, 17.2R3-S3Affectedfrom 17.2R2Affected
  • 17.3 to before 17.3R2-S5, 17.3R3-S7Affected
  • 17.4 to before 17.4R2-S7, 17.4R3Affected
  • 18.1 to before 18.1R3-S4Affected
  • 18.2 to before 18.2R3Affected
  • 18.2X75 to before 18.2X75-D50Affected
  • 18.3 to before 18.3R2Affected
  • 18.4 to before 18.4R2Affected

References

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