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CVE-2021-0255

Junos OS: ethtraceroute Local Privilege Escalation vulnerability in SUID binaries

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published
Not listed in CISA KEV
Fix
Fixed in 15.1X49-D240, 17.3R3-S11, 17.4R3-S4, 18.1R3-S12, 18.2R3-S7, and 5 more
None on Exploit-DB, Metasploit or GitHub

Summary

A local privilege escalation vulnerability in ethtraceroute of Juniper Networks Junos OS may allow a locally authenticated user with shell access to escalate privileges and write to the local filesystem as root. ethtraceroute is shipped with setuid permissions enabled and is owned by the root user, allowing local users to run ethtraceroute with root privileges. This issue affects Juniper Networks Junos OS: 15.1X49 versions prior to 15.1X49-D240; 17.3 versions prior to 17.3R3-S11, 17.4 versions prior to 17.4R3-S4; 18.1 versions prior to 18.1R3-S12; 18.2 versions prior to 18.2R3-S7; 18.3 versions prior to 18.3R3-S4; 18.4 versions prior to 18.4R2-S7; 19.1 versions prior to 19.1R1-S6, 19.1R2-S2, 19.1R3-S4; 19.3 versions prior to 19.3R3-S2; 19.4 versions prior to 19.4R3-S1; 20.1 versions prior to 20.1R2, 20.1R3; 20.2 versions prior to 20.2R2-S1, 20.2R3; 20.3 versions prior to 20.3R1-S1.

Timeline

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Affected versions

  • Juniper Networks Junos OS

    From 15.1X49 · fixed in 15.1X49-D240; From 17.3 · fixed in 17.3R3-S11; From 17.4 · fixed in 17.4R3-S4; From 18.1 · fixed in 18.1R3-S12; From 18.2 · fixed in 18.2R3-S7; From 18.3 · fixed in 18.3R3-S4; From 18.4 · fixed in 18.4R2-S7; From 19.3 · fixed in 19.3R3-S2; From 19.4 · fixed in 19.4R3-S1; From 20.3 · fixed in 20.3R1-S1

References 1

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