CVE-2018-0053

Summary

An authentication bypass vulnerability in the initial boot sequence of Juniper Networks Junos OS on vSRX Series may allow an attacker to gain full control of the system without authentication when the system is initially booted up. Affected releases are Juniper Networks Junos OS: 15.1X49 versions prior to 15.1X49-D30 on vSRX.

Affected Software

VendorProductVersion RangeStatus
Juniper NetworksJunos OS15.1X49 < 15.1X49-D30affected

Weaknesses

  • Authentication Bypass Using an Alternate Path or Channel

Workarounds

There are no viable workarounds for this issue.

Methods which may reduce, but not eliminate, the risk for exploitation of this problem, and which does not resolve the underlying problem include:

• Restrict access to the hypervisor to only trusted administrators. • Disallow all access to the 'physical instance' of the vSRX instance while it is initially booting by disabling connectivity to devices hosting the instance; e.g. console servers, etc.

ADP Enrichment

CVE Program Container

Additional References

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