An Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation ('Cross-site Scripting') vulnerability, a stored XSS (or persistent), in the Control Center Controller web pages of Juniper Networks Paragon Active Assurance (Formerly Netrounds) allows a high-privilege attacker with 'WRITE' permissions to store one or more malicious scripts that will infect any other authorized user's account when they accidentally trigger the malicious script(s) while managing the device. Triggering these attacks enables the attacker to execute commands with the permissions up to that of the superuser account.
This issue affects:
Juniper Networks Paragon Active Assurance (Formerly Netrounds)
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-2022-22229.
The following software releases have been updated to resolve this specific issue: 3.1.1, 3.2.1, 3.3.0, and all subsequent releases.Additionally, if there are malicious templates in the system, once upgraded to a fixed release, these templates can be safely removed from the system.
This issue is being tracked as PR CCC-299.
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://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.