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ghsa-jwv5-xmf5-mp56

Vulnerability from github

Published

2025-03-12 15:32

Modified

2025-03-12 15:32

Severity ?

4.4 (Medium) - CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N
6.7 (Medium) - CVSS:4.0/AV:L/AC:L/AT:N/PR:H/UI:N/VC:N/VI:H/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N

Details

An Improper Isolation or Compartmentalization vulnerability in the kernel of Juniper Networks Junos OS allows a local attacker with high privileges to compromise the integrity of the device.

A local attacker with access to the shell is able to inject arbitrary code which can compromise an affected device. This issue is not exploitable from the Junos CLI. This issue affects Junos OS:

All versions before 21.2R3-S9,
21.4 versions before 21.4R3-S10,
22.2 versions before 22.2R3-S6,
22.4 versions before 22.4R3-S6,
23.2 versions before 23.2R2-S3,
23.4 versions before 23.4R2-S4,
24.2 versions before 24.2R1-S2, 24.2R2.

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   id: "GHSA-jwv5-xmf5-mp56",
   modified: "2025-03-12T15:32:06Z",
   published: "2025-03-12T15:32:05Z",
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cve-2025-21590

Vulnerability from cvelistv5

Published

2025-03-12 13:59

Modified

2025-04-14 07:16

Severity ?

4.4 (Medium) - CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N
6.7 (Medium) - CVSS:4.0/AV:L/AC:L/AT:N/PR:H/UI:N/VC:N/VI:H/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N

Summary

An Improper Isolation or Compartmentalization vulnerability in the kernel of Juniper Networks Junos OS allows a local attacker with high privileges to compromise the integrity of the device. A local attacker with access to the shell is able to inject arbitrary code which can compromise an affected device. This issue is not exploitable from the Junos CLI. This issue affects Junos OS: * All versions before 21.2R3-S9, * 21.4 versions before 21.4R3-S10, * 22.2 versions before 22.2R3-S6, * 22.4 versions before 22.4R3-S6, * 23.2 versions before 23.2R2-S3, * 23.4 versions before 23.4R2-S4, * 24.2 versions before 24.2R1-S2, 24.2R2.

References

▼	URL	Tags
	https://supportportal.juniper.net/JSA93446	vendor-advisory
	https://cloud.google.com/blog/topics/threat-intelligence/china-nexus-espionage-targets-juniper-routers	third-party-advisory

Impacted products

	Vendor	Product	Version
	Juniper Networks	Junos OS	Version: 0 ≤ Version: 21.4 ≤ Version: 22.2 ≤ Version: 22.4 ≤ Version: 23.2 ≤ Version: 23.4 ≤ Version: 24.2 ≤

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