CVEvulnerability

CVE-2026-21916

7.0 HIGH Published 2026-04-09 Modified 2026-10-26 Official page ↗
Status
Analyzed
Published
2026-04-09
Last modified
2026-10-26
Assigner
[email protected]
CVSS 4.0 ([email protected])
7.0 HIGH — CVSS:4.0/AV:L/AC:L/AT:N/PR:L/UI:P/VC:H/VI:H/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:L/E:X/CR:X/IR:X/AR:X/MAV:X/MAC:X/MAT:X/MPR:X/MUI:X/MVC:X/MVI:X/MVA:X/MSC:X/MSI:X/MSA:X/S:X/AU:Y/R:U/V:X/RE:M/U:X
CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
7.3 HIGH — CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Weaknesses
CWE-61

Description

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.

Affected configurations

• juniper junos (< 23.2) • juniper junos 23.2 • juniper junos 23.4 • juniper junos 24.2 • juniper junos 24.4 • juniper junos 25.2

Related

Weakness · CWE (1)

  • CWE-61 UNIX Symbolic Link (Symlink) Following weakness

References