FKIE_CVE-2026-21916

Vulnerability from fkie_nvd - Published: 2026-04-09 22:16 - Updated: 2026-04-17 18:05
Severity
7.3 (High) - CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Summary
A UNIX Symbolic Link (Symlink) Following vulnerability in the CLI of Juniper Networks Junos OS allows a local, authenticated attacker with low privileges to escalate their privileges to root which will lead to a complete compromise of the system. When after a user has performed a specific 'file link ...' CLI operation, another user commits (unrelated configuration changes), the first user can login as root. This issue affects Junos OS: * all versions before 23.2R2-S7, * 23.4 versions before 23.4R2-S6, * 24.2 versions before 24.2R2-S3, * 24.4 versions before 24.4R2-S2, * 25.2 versions before 25.2R2. This issue does not affect versions 25.4R1 or later.
References
sirt@juniper.nethttps://kb.juniper.net/JSA107807Mitigation, Vendor Advisory
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
juniper junos *
juniper junos 23.2
juniper junos 23.2
juniper junos 23.2
juniper junos 23.2
juniper junos 23.2
juniper junos 23.2
juniper junos 23.2
juniper junos 23.2
juniper junos 23.2
juniper junos 23.2
juniper junos 23.2
juniper junos 23.4
juniper junos 23.4
juniper junos 23.4
juniper junos 23.4
juniper junos 23.4
juniper junos 23.4
juniper junos 23.4
juniper junos 23.4
juniper junos 23.4
juniper junos 23.4
juniper junos 24.2
juniper junos 24.2
juniper junos 24.2
juniper junos 24.2
juniper junos 24.2
juniper junos 24.2
juniper junos 24.2
juniper junos 24.4
juniper junos 24.4
juniper junos 24.4
juniper junos 24.4
juniper junos 24.4
juniper junos 24.4
juniper junos 25.2
juniper junos 25.2
juniper junos 25.2
juniper junos 25.2
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