CVE-2018-0023

Summary

JSNAPy is an open source python version of Junos Snapshot Administrator developed by Juniper available through github. The default configuration and sample files of JSNAPy automation tool versions prior to 1.3.0 are created world writable. This insecure file and directory permission allows unprivileged local users to alter the files under this directory including inserting operations not intended by the package maintainer, system administrator, or other users. This issue only affects users who downloaded and installed JSNAPy from github.

Affected Software

VendorProductVersion RangeStatus
Juniper NetworksJunos Snapshot Administrator (JSNAPy)all < 1.3.0affected

Weaknesses

  • insecure file permission

Workarounds

The workaround is to change the related files and directory to group/world to readable, but not writable:

sudo chmod -R og-w /etc/jsnapy

ls -l /etc/jsnapy/

total 20 -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 387 Aug 9 2016 jsnapy.cfg -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 1695 Aug 9 2016 logging.yml drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Aug 26 2016 samples drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Aug 26 2016 snapshots drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Aug 26 2016 testfiles

ADP Enrichment

CVE Program Container

Additional References

References