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FKIE_CVE-2021-0212

Vulnerability from fkie_nvd - Published: 2021-01-15 18:15 - Updated: 2026-06-17 03:29

Severity

5.0 (Medium) - CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N

Summary

An Information Exposure vulnerability in Juniper Networks Contrail Networking allows a locally authenticated attacker able to read files to retrieve administrator credentials stored in plaintext thereby elevating their privileges over the system. This issue affects: Juniper Networks Contrail Networking versions prior to 1911.31.

References

	URL	Tags
	sirt@juniper.net	https://kb.juniper.net/JSA11102	Vendor Advisory
	af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108	https://kb.juniper.net/JSA11102	Vendor Advisory

Impacted products

	Vendor	Product	Version
	juniper	contrail_networking	*

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  "lastModified": "2026-06-17T03:29:30.097",
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CVE-2021-0212 (GCVE-0-2021-0212)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2021-01-15 17:35 – Updated: 2024-09-16 23:21

Title

Contrail Networking: Administrator credentials are exposed in a plaintext file

Summary

Severity

5 (Medium)


                        
                          CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N

CWE

CWE-200 - Information Exposure

Assigner

juniper CNA under the mitre root

CNA scorecard B 84/100 over 193 records in the last 180 days details

References

1 reference

URL	Tags
https://kb.juniper.net/JSA11102	x_refsource_CONFIRM

Impacted products

1 product

Vendor	Product	Version
Juniper Networks	Contrail Networking	Affected: unspecified , < 1911.31 (custom)

Date Public

2021-01-13 00:00

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