CVE intelligence and bounded remediation

CVE-2020-1630 — Juniper Junos security vulnerability

Medium CVSS 5.5

A privilege escalation vulnerability in Juniper Networks Junos OS devices configured with dual Routing Engines (RE), Virtual Chassis (VC) or high-availability cluster may allow a local authenticated low-privileged user with access to the shell to perform unauthorized configuration modification. This issue does not affect Junos OS device with single RE or stand-alone configuration. This issue affects Juniper Networks Junos OS 12.3 versions prior to 12.3R12-S14; 12.3X48 versions prior to 12.3X48-D86, 12.3X48-D90; 14.1X53 versions prior to 14.1X53-D51; 15.1 versions prior to 15.1R7-S6; 15.1X49 versions prior to 15.1X49-D181, 15.1X49-D190; 15.1X53 versions prior to 15.1X53-D592; 16.1 versions prior to 16.1R4-S13, 16.1R7-S6; 16.2 versions prior to 16.2R2-S10; 17.1 versions prior to 17.1R2-S11, 17.1R3-S1; 17.2 versions prior to 17.2R1-S9, 17.2R3-S3; 17.3 versions prior to 17.3R3-S6; 17.4 versions prior to 17.4R2-S6, 17.4R3; 18.1 versions prior to 18.1R3-S7; 18.2 versions prior to 18.2R2-S5, 18.2R3-S1; 18.2 versions prior to 18.2X75-D12, 18.2X75-D33, 18.2X75-D420, 18.2X75-D60, 18.2X75-D411; 18.3 versions prior to 18.3R1-S5, 18.3R2-S1, 18.3R3; 18.4 versions prior to 18.4R1-S4, 18.4R2-S1…

Severity
Medium
CVSS
5.5 (3.1)
Published
2020-04-08
CISA KEV
Not currently listed
Ecosystem
operating-system
Weaknesses
CWE-264, CWE-367

Affected products

  • juniper / junos / 12.3

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Matched remediation archetype

Race condition, TOCTOU, and lifecycle synchronization

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Check exposure

  • Map concurrent actors, shared state, lock boundaries, signals, callbacks, retries, and check-then-use sequences in the affected path.
  • Determine whether untrusted users can influence timing, object names, filesystem state, or repeated state transitions.
  • Identify clustered and multi-process behavior that repository-local tests may not represent.

Remediate safely

  • Make the sensitive state transition atomic or protect it with a consistently ordered synchronization primitive.
  • Perform authorization and invariant checks on the same authoritative object and transaction used for the operation.
  • Use unique private resources, safe ownership transfer, and idempotent operations; add deterministic concurrency regression tests.

Authoritative sources

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