This articles explains the steps to overcome the vulnerabilities issue in Security director insights 23.1 for Linux SEol version.
While performing the vulnerability scanning the vulnerability tool reports that the Security director insights 23.1 is using Linux SEol version of 18.04.X which is vulnerable and need to upgrade the OS version.
To overcome vulnerable linux SEol version of 18.04.X we need to upgrade security director insights to 24.1
Upgrading the security director insights from 23.1 to 24.1 version will fix the issue.
Please find the below sample output of OS version from 23.1 (before upgrade) and 24.1 (after upgrade)
Security director insights 23.1
cysupport@SDI:~$ cat /etc/os-release
NAME="Ubuntu"
VERSION="18.04.3 LTS (Bionic Beaver)"
ID=ubuntu
ID_LIKE=debian
PRETTY_NAME="Ubuntu 18.04.3 LTS"
VERSION_ID="18.04"
HOME_URL="https://www.ubuntu.com/"
SUPPORT_URL="https://help.ubuntu.com/"
BUG_REPORT_URL="https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/"
PRIVACY_POLICY_URL="https://www.ubuntu.com/legal/terms-and-policies/privacy-policy"
VERSION_CODENAME=bionic
UBUNTU_CODENAME=bionic
Security director insights 24.1
PRETTY_NAME="Ubuntu 22.04.2 LTS"
VERSION_ID="22.04"
VERSION="22.04.2 LTS (Jammy Jellyfish)"
VERSION_CODENAME=jammy
UBUNTU_CODENAME=jammy
Please find the below upgrade document for Security director insights:
https://www.juniper.net/documentation/us/en/software/nm-apps24.1/sd-insights-gsg/topics/task/sdi-upgrade.html
For further assistance please contact JTAC.
2025-07-17 : Article Created
2025-12-06 : Minor change and visibility changed.