Product Affected

This issue affects Junos OS. Affected platforms: NFX Series.
High
7.8 (CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H)

Problem

An improper authorization weakness in Juniper Networks Junos OS allows a local authenticated attacker to bypass regular security controls to access the Junos Device Manager (JDM) application and take control of the system.

This issue affects:

Juniper Networks Junos OS versions prior to 18.2R1, 18.2X75-D5.

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

This issue was found during internal product security testing or research.

This issue has been assigned CVE-2019-0057 .

Solution

The following software releases have been updated to resolve this specific issue: 18.2R1, 18.2X75-D5, and all subsequent releases.

This issue is being tracked as PR 1341370 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

There are no viable workarounds for this issue.

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

2019-10-09: Initial Publication.

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