CVE-2021-31360

Junos OS and Junos OS Evolved: Denial of Service vulnerability in local file processing

State
Published
Severity
7.1 High
Published
Oct 19, 2021
Updated
Sep 17, 2024
Reserved
Apr 15, 2021

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Description

An improper privilege management vulnerability in the Juniper Networks Junos OS and Junos OS Evolved command-line interpreter (CLI) allows a low-privileged user to overwrite local files as root, possibly leading to a system integrity issue or Denial of Service (DoS). Depending on the files overwritten, exploitation of this vulnerability could lead to a sustained Denial of Service (DoS) condition, requiring manual user intervention to recover. Systems are only vulnerable if jdhcpd is running, which can be confirmed via the 'show system processes' command. For example: root@host# run show system processes extensive | match dhcp 26537 root -16 0 97568K 13692K RUN 0 0:01 3.71% jdhcpd This issue affects: Juniper Networks Junos OS: All versions, including the following supported releases: 15.1 versions prior to 15.1R7-S10; 17.4 versions prior to 17.4R3-S5; 18.3 versions prior to 18.3R3-S5; 18.4 versions prior to 18.4R3-S9; 19.1 versions prior to 19.1R3-S6; 19.2 versions prior to 19.2R1-S7, 19.2R3-S3; 19.3 versions prior to 19.3R2-S6, 19.3R3-S3; 19.4 versions prior to 19.4R3-S6; 20.1 versions prior to 20.1R2-S2, 20.1R3-S1; 20.2 versions prior to 20.2R3-S2; 20.3 versions prior to 20.3R3; 20.4 versions prior to 20.4R2-S1, 20.4R3; 21.1 versions prior to 21.1R1-S1, 21.1R2. Juniper Networks Junos OS Evolved: All versions prior to 20.4R2-S3-EVO; All versions of 21.1-EVO.

Scores

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

Weaknesses

  • CWE-269 Improper Privilege Management
  • CWE-20 Improper Input Validation

Affected Products

ProductVersions
Junos OSJuniper Networks
  • 15.1 to before 15.1R7-S10Affected
  • 17.4 to before 17.4R3-S5Affected
  • 18.3 to before 18.3R3-S5Affected
  • 18.4 to before 18.4R3-S9Affected
  • 19.1 to before 19.1R3-S6Affected
  • 19.2 to before 19.2R1-S7, 19.2R3-S3Affected
  • 19.3 to before 19.3R2-S6, 19.3R3-S3Affected
  • 19.4 to before 19.4R3-S6Affected
  • 20.1 to before 20.1R2-S2, 20.1R3-S1Affected
  • 20.2 to before 20.2R3-S2Affected
  • 20.3 to before 20.3R3Affected
  • 20.4 to before 20.4R2-S1, 20.4R3Affected
  • 21.1 to before 21.1R1-S1, 21.1R2Affected
Junos OS EvolvedJuniper Networks
  • before 20.4R2-S3-EVOAffected
  • 21.1R1-EVO to before 21.1*Affected

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