Junos OS and Junos OS Evolved: Local Privilege Escalation vulnerability

Summary

A local privilege escalation vulnerability in Juniper Networks Junos OS and Junos OS Evolved allows a local, low-privileged user to cause the Juniper DHCP daemon (jdhcpd) process to crash, resulting in a Denial of Service (DoS), or execute arbitrary commands as root. Continued processing of malicious input will repeatedly crash the system and sustain the Denial of Service (DoS) condition. Systems are only vulnerable if jdhcpd is running, which can be confirmed via the 'show system processes' command. For example: root@host# run show system processes extensive | match dhcp 26537 root -16 0 97568K 13692K RUN 0 0:01 3.71% jdhcpd This issue affects: Juniper Networks Junos OS: All versions, including the following supported releases: 15.1 versions prior to 15.1R7-S10; 17.4 versions prior to 17.4R3-S5; 18.3 versions prior to 18.3R3-S5; 18.4 versions prior to 18.4R3-S9; 19.1 versions prior to 19.1R3-S6; 19.2 versions prior to 19.2R1-S7, 19.2R3-S3; 19.3 versions prior to 19.3R2-S6, 19.3R3-S3; 19.4 versions prior to 19.4R3-S6; 20.1 versions prior to 20.1R2-S2, 20.1R3-S1; 20.2 versions prior to 20.2R3-S2; 20.3 versions prior to 20.3R3; 20.4 versions prior to 20.4R2-S1, 20.4R3; 21.1 versions prior to 21.1R1-S1, 21.1R2. Juniper Networks Junos OS Evolved: All versions prior to 20.4R2-S3-EVO; All versions of 21.1-EVO.

Timeline

1. Oct 19, 2021, 6:16 PM UTCCVE published
2. Sep 16, 2024, 11:55 PM UTCRecord last updated

Affected versions

• Juniper Networks Junos OS

  From 15.1 · fixed in 15.1R7-S10; From 17.4 · fixed in 17.4R3-S5; From 18.3 · fixed in 18.3R3-S5; From 18.4 · fixed in 18.4R3-S9; From 19.1 · fixed in 19.1R3-S6; From 19.4 · fixed in 19.4R3-S6; From 20.2 · fixed in 20.2R3-S2; From 20.3 · fixed in 20.3R3

• Juniper Networks Junos OS Evolved

  fixed in 20.4R2-S3-EVO; From 21.1R1-EVO

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