CVEvulnerability

CVE-2021-0256

5.5 MEDIUM Published 2021-04-22 Modified 2026-06-17 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2021-04-22
Last modified
2026-06-17
Assigner
[email protected]
CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
5.5 MEDIUM — CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
2.1 LOW — AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N
Weaknesses
CWE-250, CWE-269

Description

A sensitive information disclosure vulnerability in the mosquitto message broker of Juniper Networks Junos OS may allow a locally authenticated user with shell access the ability to read portions of sensitive files, such as the master.passwd file. Since mosquitto is shipped with setuid permissions enabled and is owned by the root user, this vulnerability may allow a local privileged user the ability to run mosquitto with root privileges and access sensitive information stored on the local filesystem. This issue affects Juniper Networks Junos OS: 17.3 versions prior to 17.3R3-S12, 17.4 versions prior to 17.4R3-S4; 18.1 versions prior to 18.1R3-S12; 18.3 versions prior to 18.3R3-S4; 19.1 versions prior to 19.1R3-S4; 19.3 versions prior to 19.3R3-S1, 19.3R3-S2; 19.4 versions prior to 19.4R2-S3; 20.1 versions prior to 20.1R2; 20.2 versions prior to 20.2R1-S3, 20.2R2, 20.2R3.

Affected configurations

• 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 • juniper junos 20.3 • juniper junos 20.4

Related

Weakness · CWE (2)

  • CWE-250 Execution with Unnecessary Privileges weakness
  • CWE-269 Improper Privilege Management weakness

References