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FKIE_CVE-2026-21916

Vulnerability from fkie_nvd - Published: 2026-04-09 22:16 - Updated: 2026-06-17 10:19

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

	URL	Tags
	sirt@juniper.net	https://kb.juniper.net/JSA107807	Mitigation, 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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CVE-2026-21916 (GCVE-0-2026-21916)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2026-04-09 21:28 – Updated: 2026-04-13 13:04

Title

Junos OS: A low privileged user can escalate their privileges so that they can login as root

Summary

Severity

7.3 (High)


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

7 (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/AU:Y/R:U/RE:M

SSVC

Exploitation: none Automatable: no Technical Impact: total

CISA Coordinator · CISA-ADP (v2.0.3)

Decision recorded 2026-04-10 03:56 UTC

CWE

CWE-61 - UNIX Symbolic Link (Symlink) Following

Assigner

juniper mitre root

References

1 reference

URL	Tags
https://kb.juniper.net/JSA107807	vendor-advisory

Impacted products

1 product

Vendor	Product	Version
Juniper Networks	Junos OS	Affected: 0 , < 23.2R2-S7 (semver) Affected: 23.4 , < 23.4R2-S6 (semver) Affected: 24.2 , < 24.2R2-S3 (semver) Affected: 24.4 , < 24.4R2-S2 (semver) Affected: 25.2 , < 25.2R2 (semver) Unaffected: 25.4R1

Date Public

2026-04-08 16:00

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Sightings

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