Product Affected

This issue affects Junos OS 12.1X46, 12.3, 12.3X48, 14.1, 14.1X53, 14.2, 15.1, 15.1X49, 15.1X53.
Critical
9.8 (CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H)

Problem

A remote, unauthenticated attacker may be able to execute code by exploiting a use-after-free defect found in older versions of PHP through injection of crafted data via specific PHP URLs within the context of the J-Web process.

Affected releases are Juniper Networks Junos OS:

  • 12.1X46 versions prior to 12.1X46-D67;
  • 12.3 versions prior to 12.3R12-S5;
  • 12.3X48 versions prior to 12.3X48-D35;
  • 14.1 versions prior to 14.1R8-S5, 14.1R9;
  • 14.1X53 versions prior to 14.1X53-D44;
  • 14.2 versions prior to 14.2R7-S7, 14.2R8;
  • 15.1 versions prior to 15.1R3;
  • 15.1X49 versions prior to 15.1X49-D30;
  • 15.1X53-D5x versions prior to 15.1X53-D59 for the EX2300/EX3400 platforms;
  • 15.1X53-D6x versions prior to 15.1X53-D66 for the QFX10k platforms

Juniper SIRT is not aware of any malicious exploitation of this vulnerability.

This issue was discovered during an external security research.

This issue has been assigned CVE-2018-0001 .
 

Solution

The following software releases have been updated to resolve this specific issue: 12.1X46-D67, 12.3R12-S8, 12.3X48-D55, 14.1R8-S5, 14.1R9, 14.1X53-D44, 14.2R7-S7, 14.2R8, 15.1F5-S8, 15.1F6-S8, 15.1R5-S6, 15.1R7, 15.1X49-D100, 15.1X53-D59, 15.1X53-D66, 16.1R4-S6, 16.1R5, 16.2R2-S2, 16.2R3, 17.1R2-S5, 17.1R3*, 17.2R2, 17.3R1, and all subsequent releases.
*Pending release

Note: While Junos OS 12.3R12-S5, 12.3X48-D35, 15.1F2+, 15.1R3, 15.1X49-D30, and all subsequent releases are not vulnerable, this issue has been proactively resolved.

This issue is being tracked as PR  1269932 which is visible on the Customer Support website.

Note: Juniper SIRT's policy is not to evaluate releases which are beyond End of Engineering (EOE) or End of Life (EOL).

Software Releases, patches and updates are available at https://www.juniper.net/support/downloads/ .
 

Workaround

Disable J-Web, or limit access to only trusted hosts.
 

Severity Assessment

Information for how Juniper Networks uses CVSS can be found at KB 16446 [juniper.net] "Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) and Juniper's Security Advisories."

Modification History

2018-01-10: Initial publication
2018-03-28: Removed references to "placeholder" releases 14.1X53-D50 and 15.1X53-D70

Related Information

Acknowledgements

Juniper SIRT would like to acknowledge and thank Cure53 for responsibly reporting this vulnerability.