An authentication bypass vulnerability in the initial boot sequence of Juniper Networks Junos OS on vSRX Series may allow an attacker to gain full control of the system without authentication when the system is initially booted up. Affected releases are Juniper Networks Junos OS: 15.1X49 versions prior to 15.1X49-D30 on vSRX.
Advisories
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EUVD EUVD EUVD-2018-0877 An authentication bypass vulnerability in the initial boot sequence of Juniper Networks Junos OS on vSRX Series may allow an attacker to gain full control of the system without authentication when the system is initially booted up. Affected releases are Juniper Networks Junos OS: 15.1X49 versions prior to 15.1X49-D30 on vSRX.
Fixes

Solution

The following software releases have been updated to resolve this specific issue: Junos OS 15.1X49-D30, and all subsequent releases.


Workaround

There are no viable workarounds for this issue. Methods which may reduce, but not eliminate, the risk for exploitation of this problem, and which does not resolve the underlying problem include: • Restrict access to the hypervisor to only trusted administrators. • Disallow all access to the 'physical instance' of the vSRX instance while it is initially booting by disabling connectivity to devices hosting the instance; e.g. console servers, etc.

History

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cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: juniper

Published:

Updated: 2024-09-17T03:07:29.687Z

Reserved: 2017-11-16T00:00:00

Link: CVE-2018-0053

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Status : Modified

Published: 2018-10-10T18:29:02.530

Modified: 2024-11-21T03:37:28.160

Link: CVE-2018-0053

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