CVE-2017-10615

Summary

A vulnerability in the pluggable authentication module (PAM) of Juniper Networks Junos OS may allow an unauthenticated network based attacker to potentially execute arbitrary code or crash daemons such as telnetd or sshd that make use of PAM. Affected Juniper Networks Junos OS releases are: 14.1 from 14.1R5 prior to 14.1R8-S4, 14.1R9; 14.1X53 prior to 14.1X53-D50 on EX and QFX series; 14.2 from 14.2R3 prior to 14.2R7-S8, 14.2R8; No other Junos OS releases are affected by this issue. No other Juniper Networks products are affected by this issue.

Affected Software

Weaknesses

• remote code execution vulnerability

Workarounds

There are no viable workarounds for this issue. It is good security practice to limit the exploitable attack surface of critical infrastructure networking equipment. Use access lists or firewall filters to limit access to the router only from trusted, administrative networks or hosts.

The risk of malicious exploitation can be reduced by disabling services if they are not being used.

ADP Enrichment

CVE Program Container

Additional References

• https://kb.juniper.net/JSA10818
• http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1040039

References

• https://kb.juniper.net/JSA10818
• http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1040039

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