CVEvulnerability
CVE-2021-0223
7.8 HIGH
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2021-01-15
- Last modified
- 2026-06-17
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
- 7.8 HIGH — CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
- CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
- 7.2 HIGH — AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C
- Weaknesses
- CWE-250, CWE-269
Description
A local privilege escalation vulnerability in telnetd.real of Juniper Networks Junos OS may allow a locally authenticated shell user to escalate privileges and execute arbitrary commands as root. telnetd.real is shipped with setuid permissions enabled and is owned by the root user, allowing local users to run telnetd.real with root privileges. This issue affects Juniper Networks Junos OS: all versions prior to 15.1R7-S9; 17.3 versions prior to 17.3R3-S11; 17.4 versions prior to 17.4R2-S12, 17.4R3-S3; 18.1 versions prior to 18.1R3-S11; 18.2 versions prior to 18.2R3-S6; 18.3 versions prior to 18.3R2-S4, 18.3R3-S4; 18.4 versions prior to 18.4R2-S7, 18.4R3-S6; 19.1 versions prior to 19.1R2-S2, 19.1R3-S4; 19.2 versions prior to 19.2R1-S6, 19.2R3-S1; 19.3 versions prior to 19.3R3-S1; 19.4 versions prior to 19.4R2-S2, 19.4R3; 20.1 versions prior to 20.1R1-S4, 20.1R2; 20.2 versions prior to 20.2R2.
Affected configurations
• juniper junos 15.1
• juniper junos 17.3
• juniper junos 17.4
• juniper junos 18.1
• juniper junos 18.2
• juniper junos 18.3
• juniper junos 18.4
• juniper junos 19.1
• juniper junos 19.2
• juniper junos 19.3
• juniper junos 19.4
• juniper junos 20.1
• juniper junos 20.2
Related
References
- https://kb.juniper.net/JSA11114 Vendor Advisory
- https://kb.juniper.net/JSA11114 Vendor Advisory