An Incorrect Ownership Assignment vulnerability in Juniper Networks Contrail Service Orchestration (CSO) allows a locally authenticated user to have their permissions elevated without authentication thereby taking control of the local system they are currently authenticated to.

This issue affects:

Juniper Networks Contrail Service Orchestration 6.0.0 versions prior to 6.0.0 Patch v3 on On-premises installations.

This issue does not affect Juniper Networks Contrail Service Orchestration On-premises versions prior to 6.0.0.

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

This issue was seen during production usage.

This issue has been assigned CVE-2022-22189.

The following software releases have been updated to resolve these specific issues: On-premises: Contrail Service Orchestration 6.0.0 Patch v3, 6.1.0, and all subsequent releases.

This issue is being tracked as CXU-56990.

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

Implementation

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

There are no known workarounds for this issue.

To reduce the risk of exploitation of this issue, use access lists or firewall filters to limit access to only trusted administrative networks, hosts and users.

• 2022-04-13: Initial Publication.

• KB16613: Overview of the Juniper Networks SIRT Quarterly Security Bulletin Publication Process [juniper.net]
• KB16765: In which releases are vulnerabilities fixed? [juniper.net]
• KB16446: Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) and Juniper's Security Advisories [juniper.net]
• Report a Security Vulnerability - How to Contact the Juniper Networks Security Incident Response Team
• CVE-2022-22189 at cve.mitre.org