Riskcovery

CVE-2023-44201

Junos OS and Junos OS Evolved: A local attacker can retrieve sensitive information and elevate privileges on the device to an authorized user.

State
Published
Severity
5.0 Medium
Published
Oct 12, 2023
Updated
Sep 17, 2024
Reserved
Sep 26, 2023

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Description

An Incorrect Permission Assignment for Critical Resource vulnerability in a specific file of Juniper Networks Junos OS and Junos OS Evolved allows a local authenticated attacker to read configuration changes without having the permissions.

When a user with the respective permissions commits a configuration change, a specific file is created. That file is readable even by users with no permissions to access the configuration. This can lead to privilege escalation as the user can read the password hash when a password change is being committed.

This issue affects:

Juniper Networks Junos OS

* All versions prior to 20.4R3-S4; * 21.1 versions prior to 21.1R3-S4; * 21.2 versions prior to 21.2R3-S2; * 21.3 versions prior to 21.3R2-S2, 21.3R3-S1; * 21.4 versions prior to 21.4R2-S1, 21.4R3.

Juniper Networks Junos OS Evolved

* All versions prior to 20.4R3-S4-EVO; * 21.1 versions prior to 21.1R3-S2-EVO; * 21.2 versions prior to 21.2R3-S2-EVO; * 21.3 versions prior to 21.3R3-S1-EVO; * 21.4 versions prior to 21.4R2-S2-EVO.

Scores

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

Weaknesses

  • CWE-732 Incorrect Permission Assignment for Critical Resource

Affected Products

ProductVersions
Junos OSJuniper Networks
  • before 20.4R3-S4Affected
  • 21.1 to before 21.1R3-S4Affected
  • 21.2 to before 21.2R3-S2Affected
  • 21.3 to before 21.3R2-S2, 21.3R3-S1Affected
  • 21.4 to before 21.4R2-S1, 21.4R3Affected
Junos OS EvolvedJuniper Networks
  • before 20.4R3-S4-EVOAffected
  • 21.1-EVO to before 21.1R3-S2-EVOAffected
  • 21.2-EVO to before 21.2R3-S2-EVOAffected
  • 21.3-EVO to before 21.3R3-S1-EVOAffected
  • 21.4-EVO to before 21.4R2-S2-EVO, 21.4R3-EVOAffected

References

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