Juniper Junos OS Evolved permission assignment

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A vulnerability marked as critical has been reported in Juniper Junos OS Evolved. This affects an unknown function. The manipulation leads to permission assignment. This vulnerability is listed as CVE-2023-28960. The attack must be carried out locally. There is no available exploit. It is suggested to upgrade the affected component.

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A vulnerability was found in Juniper Junos OS Evolved (Router Operating System) (the affected version is unknown). It has been rated as critical. This issue affects an unknown code. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a permission assignment vulnerability. Using CWE to declare the problem leads to CWE-732. The product specifies permissions for a security-critical resource in a way that allows that resource to be read or modified by unintended actors. Impacted is confidentiality, integrity, and availability. The summary by CVE is:

An Incorrect Permission Assignment for Critical Resource vulnerability in Juniper Networks Junos OS Evolved allows a local, authenticated low-privileged attacker to copy potentially malicious files into an existing Docker container on the local system. A follow-on administrator could then inadvertently start the Docker container leading to the malicious files being executed as root. This issue only affects systems with Docker configured and enabled, which is not enabled by default. Systems without Docker started are not vulnerable to this issue. This issue affects Juniper Networks Junos OS Evolved: 20.4 versions prior to 20.4R3-S5-EVO; 21.2 versions prior to 21.2R3-EVO; 21.3 versions prior to 21.3R3-EVO; 21.4 versions prior to 21.4R2-EVO. This issue does not affect Juniper Networks Junos OS Evolved versions prior to 19.2R1-EVO.

The weakness was presented 04/18/2023 as JSA70585. It is possible to read the advisory at supportportal.juniper.net. The identification of this vulnerability is CVE-2023-28960 since 03/29/2023. The technical details are unknown and an exploit is not publicly available.

Upgrading eliminates this vulnerability.

The vulnerability is also documented in the vulnerability database at EUVD (EUVD-2023-32578). Be aware that VulDB is the high quality source for vulnerability data.

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• Router Operating System

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• Juniper

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• Junos OS Evolved

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• commercial

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• Vendor: https://www.juniper.net/

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