Junos OS: UNIX Symbolic Link (Symlink) Following vulnerability in the CLI of Juniper Networks Junos OS allows a local, authen…
Summary
A UNIX Symbolic Link (Symlink) Following vulnerability in the CLI of Juniper Networks Junos OS allows a local, authenticated attacker with low privileges to escalate their privileges to root which will lead to a complete compromise of the system. When after a user has performed a specific 'file link ...' CLI operation, another user commits (unrelated configuration changes), the first user can login as root. This issue affects Junos OS: * all versions before 23.2R2-S7, * 23.4 versions before 23.4R2-S6, * 24.2 versions before 24.2R2-S3, * 24.4 versions before 24.4R2-S2, * 25.2 versions before 25.2R2. This issue does not affect versions 25.4R1 or later.
- * all versions before 23
Official advisory · high-confidence parse· fetched 22 hours ago·verify at source
- 23.2R2-S7
- 23.4R2-S6
- 24.2R2-S3
- 24.4R2-S2
- 25.2R2
Official advisory · high-confidence parse· fetched 22 hours ago·verify at source
Mitigation
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Official advisory · high-confidence parse· fetched 22 hours ago·verify at source
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