Riskcovery

CVE-2023-36846

Junos OS: SRX Series: A vulnerability in J-Web allows an unauthenticated attacker to upload arbitrary files

State
Published
Severity
5.3 Medium
Published
Aug 17, 2023
Updated
Oct 21, 2025
Reserved
Jun 27, 2023

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Description

A Missing Authentication for Critical Function vulnerability in Juniper Networks Junos OS on SRX Series allows an unauthenticated, network-based attacker to cause limited impact to the file system integrity.

With a specific request to user.php that doesn't require authentication an attacker is able to upload arbitrary files via J-Web, leading to a loss of

integrity

for a certain

part of the file system, which may allow chaining to other vulnerabilities.

This issue affects Juniper Networks Junos OS on SRX Series:

* All versions prior to 20.4R3-S8; * 21.1 versions 21.1R1 and later; * 21.2 versions prior to 21.2R3-S6; * 21.3 versions

prior to

21.3R3-S5; * 21.4 versions

prior to

21.4R3-S5; * 22.1 versions

prior to

22.1R3-S3; * 22.2 versions

prior to

22.2R3-S2; * 22.3 versions

prior to

22.3R2-S2, 22.3R3; * 22.4 versions

prior to

22.4R2-S1, 22.4R3.

Scores

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

Weaknesses

  • CWE-306 Missing Authentication for Critical Function

Affected Products

ProductVersions
Junos OSJuniper Networks
  • before 20.4R3-S8Affected
  • 21.1 to before 21.1*Affected
  • 21.2 to before 21.2R3-S6Affected
  • 21.3 to before 21.3R3-S5Affected
  • 21.4 to before 21.4R3-S5Affected
  • 22.1 to before 22.1R3-S3Affected
  • 22.2 to before 22.2R3-S2Affected
  • 22.3 to before 22.3R2-S2, 22.3R3Affected
  • 22.4 to before 22.4R2-S1, 22.4R3Affected

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