QID 730956

QID 730956: Juniper Network Operating System (Junos OS) Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability (JSA73149)

Juniper Junos is the network operating system used in Juniper Networks hardware systems.

An Unchecked Return Value vulnerability in the user interfaces to the Juniper Networks Junos OS and Junos OS Evolved, the CLI, the XML API, the XML Management Protocol, the NETCONF Management Protocol, the gNMI interfaces, and the J-Web User Interfaces causes unintended effects such as demotion or elevation of privileges associated with an operators actions to occur.

This issue affects Juniper Networks Junos OS all versions prior to 20.4R3-S7; 21.1 versions prior to 21.1R3-S5; 21.2 versions prior to 21.2R3-S5; 21.3 versions prior to 21.3R3-S4; 21.4 versions prior to 21.4R3-S3; 22.1 versions prior to 22.1R3-S2; 22.2 versions prior to 22.2R2-S2, 22.2R3; 22.3 versions prior to 22.3R1-S2, 22.3R2, and Juniper Networks Junos OS Evolved all versions prior to 21.4R3-S3-EVO; 22.1-EVO version 22.1R1-EVO and later versions prior to 22.2R2-S2-EVO, 22.2R3-EVO; 22.3-EVO versions prior to 22.3R1-S2-EVO, 22.3R2-EVO.

Successful exploitation of this vulnerability may allow the attacker to gain privilege escalation over the device or another account, access to files that should not otherwise be accessible, files not being accessible where they should be accessible, code expected to run as non-root may run as root, and so forth.

CVSS V3 rated as Critical - 8.8 severity.

CVSS V2 rated as Critical - 9.7 severity.

Solution

Vendor has released patch addressing the vulnerabilities, for more information please refer JSA73149

Vendor References

JSA73149 - supportportal.juniper.net/s/article/2023-10-Security-Bulletin-Junos-OS-and-Junos-OS-Evolved-An-Unchecked-Return-Value-in-multiple-users-interfaces-affects-confidentiality-and-integrity-of-device-operations-CVE-2023-44182?language=en_US

CVEs related to QID 730956

CVE-2023-44182 |

Software Advisories

Advisory ID	Software	Component	Link
JSA73149			supportportal.juniper.net/s/article/2023-10-Security-Bulletin-Junos-OS-and-Junos-OS-Evolved-An-Unchecked-Return-Value-in-multiple-users-interfaces-affects-confidentiality-and-integrity-of-device-operations-CVE-2023-44182?language=en_US

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