CVE-2021-31350

Junos OS and Junos OS Evolved: Privilege escalation vulnerability in Juniper Extension Toolkit (JET)

State
Published
Severity
7.5 High
Published
Oct 19, 2021
Updated
Sep 16, 2024
Reserved
Apr 15, 2021

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Description

An Improper Privilege Management vulnerability in the gRPC framework, used by the Juniper Extension Toolkit (JET) API on Juniper Networks Junos OS and Junos OS Evolved, allows a network-based, low-privileged authenticated attacker to perform operations as root, leading to complete compromise of the targeted system. The issue is caused by the JET service daemon (jsd) process authenticating the user, then passing configuration operations directly to the management daemon (mgd) process, which runs as root. This issue affects Juniper Networks Junos OS: 18.4 versions prior to 18.4R1-S8, 18.4R2-S8, 18.4R3-S8; 19.1 versions prior to 19.1R2-S3, 19.1R3-S5; 19.2 versions prior to 19.2R1-S7, 19.2R3-S2; 19.3 versions prior to 19.3R2-S6, 19.3R3-S2; 19.4 versions prior to 19.4R1-S4, 19.4R2-S4, 19.4R3-S3; 20.1 versions prior to 20.1R2-S2, 20.1R3; 20.2 versions prior to 20.2R2-S3, 20.2R3; 20.3 versions prior to 20.3R2-S1, 20.3R3; 20.4 versions prior to 20.4R2. This issue does not affect Juniper Networks Junos OS versions prior to 18.4R1. Juniper Networks Junos OS Evolved: All versions prior to 20.4R2-EVO; 21.1-EVO versions prior to 21.1R2-EVO.

Scores

CVSSScoreVectorSource
3.17.5 HighCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:Hjuniper

Weaknesses

  • CWE-269 Improper Privilege Management

Affected Products

ProductVersions
Junos OSJuniper Networks
  • before 18.4R1Not affected
  • 18.4 to before 18.4R1-S8, 18.4R2-S8, 18.4R3-S8Affected
  • 19.1 to before 19.1R2-S3, 19.1R3-S5Affected
  • 19.2 to before 19.2R1-S7, 19.2R3-S2Affected
  • 19.3 to before 19.3R2-S6, 19.3R3-S2Affected
  • 19.4 to before 19.4R1-S4, 19.4R2-S4, 19.4R3-S3Affected
  • 20.1 to before 20.1R2-S2, 20.1R3Affected
  • 20.2 to before 20.2R2-S3, 20.2R3Affected
  • 20.3 to before 20.3R2-S1, 20.3R3Affected
  • 20.4 to before 20.4R2Affected
Junos OS EvolvedJuniper Networks
  • before 20.4R2-EVOAffected
  • 21.1-EVO to before 21.1R2-EVOAffected

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