An Incorrect Permission Assignment for Critical Resource vulnerability in a specific file of Juniper Networks Junos OS and Junos OS Evolved allows a local authenticated attacker to read configuration changes without having the permissions.
When a user with the respective permissions commits a configuration change, a specific file is created. That file is readable even by users with no permissions to access the configuration. This can lead to privilege escalation as the user can read the password hash when a password change is being committed.
This issue affects:
Juniper Networks Junos OS
All versions prior to 20.4R3-S4;
21.1 versions prior to 21.1R3-S4;
21.2 versions prior to 21.2R3-S2;
21.3 versions prior to 21.3R2-S2, 21.3R3-S1;
21.4 versions prior to 21.4R2-S1, 21.4R3.
Juniper Networks Junos OS Evolved
All versions prior to 20.4R3-S4-EVO;
21.1 versions prior to 21.1R3-S2-EVO;
21.2 versions prior to 21.2R3-S2-EVO;
21.3 versions prior to 21.3R3-S1-EVO;
21.4 versions prior to 21.4R2-S2-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-2023-44201.
The following software releases have been updated to resolve this specific issue:
Junos OS: 20.4R3-S4, 21.1R3-S4, 21.2R3-S2, 21.3R2-S2, 21.3R3-S1, 21.4R2-S1, 21.4R3, 22.1R1, and all subsequent releases.
Junos OS Evolved: 20.4R3-S4-EVO, 21.1R3-S2-EVO, 21.2R3-S2-EVO, 21.4R2-S2-EVO, 21.4R3-EVO, 22.1R1-EVO, and all subsequent releases.
This issue is being tracked as PR 1621563 which is visible on the Customer Support website.
Note: Juniper SIRT's policy [juniper.net] is not to evaluate releases which are beyond End of Engineering (EOE) or End of Life (EOL).
There are no known workarounds for this issue.
2023-10-11: Initial Publication