Juniper Junos RCE (JSA10871)

critical Nessus Plugin ID 137004

Synopsis

The remote device is missing a vendor-supplied security patch.

Description

According to the self reported version of Junos OS on the remote device it is affected by a remote code execution vulnerability in the routing protocol daemon (RPD). An unauthenticated, remote attacker can exploit this, via crafted BGP NOTIFICATION messages, to crash the RPD process and potentially allow the execution of arbitrary commands.

Note that Nessus has not tested for this issue but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

Solution

Apply the relevant Junos software release referenced in Juniper advisory JSA10871

See Also

http://www.nessus.org/u?2cc20917

Plugin Details

Severity: Critical

ID: 137004

File Name: juniper_jsa10871.nasl

Version: 1.4

Type: combined

Published: 6/2/2020

Updated: 7/20/2023

Supported Sensors: Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 5.9

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.5

Temporal Score: 5.5

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2018-0037

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Critical

Base Score: 9.8

Temporal Score: 8.5

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/E:U/RL:O/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/o:juniper:junos

Required KB Items: Host/Juniper/JUNOS/Version, Host/Juniper/model

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 7/11/2018

Vulnerability Publication Date: 7/11/2018

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2018-0037

JSA: JSA10871