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CVE-2021-31350

Junos OS and Junos OS Evolved: Privilege escalation vulnerability in Juniper Extension Toolkit (JET)

Published
Last modified
published
Not listed in CISA KEV
Fix
Fixed in 20.4R2, 20.4R2-EVO, 21.1R2-EVO
None on Exploit-DB, Metasploit or GitHub

Summary

An Improper Privilege Management vulnerability in the gRPC framework, used by the Juniper Extension Toolkit (JET) API on Juniper Networks Junos OS and Junos OS Evolved, allows a network-based, low-privileged authenticated attacker to perform operations as root, leading to complete compromise of the targeted system. The issue is caused by the JET service daemon (jsd) process authenticating the user, then passing configuration operations directly to the management daemon (mgd) process, which runs as root. This issue affects Juniper Networks Junos OS: 18.4 versions prior to 18.4R1-S8, 18.4R2-S8, 18.4R3-S8; 19.1 versions prior to 19.1R2-S3, 19.1R3-S5; 19.2 versions prior to 19.2R1-S7, 19.2R3-S2; 19.3 versions prior to 19.3R2-S6, 19.3R3-S2; 19.4 versions prior to 19.4R1-S4, 19.4R2-S4, 19.4R3-S3; 20.1 versions prior to 20.1R2-S2, 20.1R3; 20.2 versions prior to 20.2R2-S3, 20.2R3; 20.3 versions prior to 20.3R2-S1, 20.3R3; 20.4 versions prior to 20.4R2. This issue does not affect Juniper Networks Junos OS versions prior to 18.4R1. Juniper Networks Junos OS Evolved: All versions prior to 20.4R2-EVO; 21.1-EVO versions prior to 21.1R2-EVO.

Timeline

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Affected versions

  • Juniper Networks Junos OS

    From 20.4 · fixed in 20.4R2

  • Juniper Networks Junos OS Evolved

    fixed in 20.4R2-EVO; From 21.1-EVO · fixed in 21.1R2-EVO

References 1

kb.juniper.net