An OS Command Injection vulnerability in gRPC Network Operations Interface (gNOI) server module of Juniper Networks Junos OS Evolved allows an authenticated, low privileged, network based attacker to inject shell commands and execute code.
 

This issue affects Juniper Networks Junos OS Evolved 21.4 version 21.4R1-EVO and later versions prior to 22.1R1-EVO.
 

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-2023-28983.

The following software releases have been updated to resolve this specific issue: 22.2R1-EVO, 22.3R1-EVO, and all subsequent releases.

This issue is being tracked as 1662750

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

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.

• 2023-04-12: 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-2023-28983 at cve.mitre.org