CVE-2021-0256CWE-250

Junos OS: mosquitto Local Privilege Escalation vulnerability in SUID binaries

Medium · published April 22, 2021

CVSS v3.1
5.5
EPSS
0%
Percentile
10.4
In the wild
Unconfirmed
What it is

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.

The record
Technical detail
CVSS v3.1
5.5 · MEDIUM
Vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
CVSS v4.0
Not supplied
EPSS
0.00208 · 10.4th percentile
Weakness
CWE-250 · Execution with Unnecessary Privileges
Published
2021-04-22T19:37Z
EPSS history
Timeline
  • 22 APR 19:37Z
    Junos OS: mosquitto Local Privilege Escalation vulnerability in SUID binaries
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