CVE intelligence and bounded remediation

CVE-2019-0020 — Juniper Advanced Threat Prevention security vulnerability

Critical CVSS 10

Juniper ATP ships with hard coded credentials in the Web Collector instance which gives an attacker the ability to take full control of any installation of the software. Affected releases are Juniper Networks Juniper ATP: 5.0 versions prior to 5.0.3.

Severity
Critical
CVSS
10 (3.0)
Published
2019-01-15
CISA KEV
Not currently listed
Ecosystem
operating-system
Weaknesses
CWE-798

Affected products

  • juniper / advanced_threat_prevention

Matched remediation archetype

Authentication bypass and missing authentication

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Check exposure

  • Map every affected endpoint and protocol path, including alternate ports, legacy routes, recovery flows, service accounts, and machine-to-machine access.
  • Confirm which deployments enable the affected authentication mode and whether the interface is reachable from untrusted networks.
  • Review session, token, credential, and proxy trust configuration without attempting account takeover.

Remediate safely

  • Apply the supported fix and centralize fail-closed authentication before protected request handling.
  • Remove default or embedded credentials, rotate affected secrets and sessions, and bind authentication decisions to the intended audience and channel.
  • Add negative tests for alternate routes, malformed or absent credentials, recovery flows, and proxy-derived identity.

Authoritative sources

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