cve-2019-0054
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2019-10-09 19:26
Modified
2024-09-17 00:36
Severity ?
6.8 (Medium) - CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:N
Summary
Junos OS: SRX Series: An attacker may be able to perform Man-in-the-Middle (MitM) attacks during app-id signature updates.
References
sirt@juniper.nethttps://kb.juniper.net/JSA10952Vendor Advisory
sirt@juniper.nethttps://www.juniper.net/documentation/en_US/junos/topics/topic-map/security-application-identification-overview.htmlVendor Advisory
Impacted products
Juniper NetworksJunos OS
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