7.8
CVSSv3

CVE-2021-0255

Published: 22/04/2021 Updated: 28/04/2021
CVSS v2 Base Score: 7.2 | Impact Score: 10 | Exploitability Score: 3.9
CVSS v3 Base Score: 7.8 | Impact Score: 5.9 | Exploitability Score: 1.8
VMScore: 641
Vector: AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

Vulnerability Summary

A local privilege escalation vulnerability in ethtraceroute of Juniper Networks Junos OS may allow a locally authenticated user with shell access to escalate privileges and write to the local filesystem as root. ethtraceroute is shipped with setuid permissions enabled and is owned by the root user, allowing local users to run ethtraceroute with root privileges. This issue affects Juniper Networks Junos OS: 15.1X49 versions before 15.1X49-D240; 17.3 versions before 17.3R3-S11, 17.4 versions before 17.4R3-S4; 18.1 versions before 18.1R3-S12; 18.2 versions before 18.2R3-S7; 18.3 versions before 18.3R3-S4; 18.4 versions before 18.4R2-S7; 19.1 versions before 19.1R1-S6, 19.1R2-S2, 19.1R3-S4; 19.3 versions before 19.3R3-S2; 19.4 versions before 19.4R3-S1; 20.1 versions before 20.1R2, 20.1R3; 20.2 versions before 20.2R2-S1, 20.2R3; 20.3 versions before 20.3R1-S1.

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