Security News > 2023 > September > Thousands of Juniper devices vulnerable to unauthenticated RCE flaw
An estimated 12,000 Juniper SRX firewalls and EX switches are vulnerable to a fileless remote code execution flaw that attackers can exploit without authentication.
In a later technical report, watchTowr Labs released a PoC that chained the CVE-2023-36845 and CVE-2023-36846 flaws, allowing the researchers to remotely execute code by uploading two files to a vulnerable device.
As part of Baines' report, the researcher shared a free scanner on GitHub to help identify vulnerable deployments, showing thousands of vulnerable devices exposed on the internet.
From a sample size of 3,000 devices, Baines found that 79% were vulnerable to this RCE flaw.
Exploit released for Juniper firewall bugs allowing RCE attacks.
Hackers exploit critical Juniper RCE bug chain after PoC release.
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| DATE | CVE | VULNERABILITY TITLE | RISK |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2023-08-17 | CVE-2023-36846 | Missing Authentication for Critical Function vulnerability in Juniper Junos A Missing Authentication for Critical Function vulnerability in Juniper Networks Junos OS on SRX Series allows an unauthenticated, network-based attacker to cause limited impact to the file system integrity. With a specific request to user.php that doesn't require authentication an attacker is able to upload arbitrary files via J-Web, leading to a loss of integrity for a certain part of the file system, which may allow chaining to other vulnerabilities. This issue affects Juniper Networks Junos OS on SRX Series: * All versions prior to 20.4R3-S8; * 21.1 versions 21.1R1 and later; * 21.2 versions prior to 21.2R3-S6; * 21.3 versions prior to 21.3R3-S5; * 21.4 versions prior to 21.4R3-S5; * 22.1 versions prior to 22.1R3-S3; * 22.2 versions prior to 22.2R3-S2; * 22.3 versions prior to 22.3R2-S2, 22.3R3; * 22.4 versions prior to 22.4R2-S1, 22.4R3. | 5.3 |
| 2023-08-17 | CVE-2023-36845 | Unspecified vulnerability in Juniper Junos A PHP External Variable Modification vulnerability in J-Web of Juniper Networks Junos OS on EX Series and SRX Series allows an unauthenticated, network-based attacker to remotely execute code. Using a crafted request which sets the variable PHPRC an attacker is able to modify the PHP execution environment allowing the injection und execution of code. This issue affects Juniper Networks Junos OS on EX Series and SRX Series: * All versions prior to 20.4R3-S9; * 21.1 versions 21.1R1 and later; * 21.2 versions prior to 21.2R3-S7; * 21.3 versions prior to 21.3R3-S5; * 21.4 versions prior to 21.4R3-S5; * 22.1 versions prior to 22.1R3-S4; * 22.2 versions prior to 22.2R3-S2; * 22.3 versions prior to 22.3R2-S2, 22.3R3-S1; * 22.4 versions prior to 22.4R2-S1, 22.4R3; * 23.2 versions prior to 23.2R1-S1, 23.2R2. | 9.8 |