CVE-2020-1615 Information

Description

The factory configuration for vMX installations as shipped includes default credentials for the root account. Without proper modification of these default credentials by the administrator an attacker could exploit these credentials and access the vMX instance without authorization. This issue affects Juniper Networks Junos OS: 17.1 versions prior to 17.1R2-S11 17.1R3-S2 on vMX; 17.2 versions prior to 17.2R3-S3 on vMX; 17.3 versions prior to 17.3R2-S5 17.3R3-S7 on vMX; 17.4 versions prior to 17.4R2-S9 17.4R3 on vMX; 18.1 versions prior to 18.1R3-S9 on vMX; 18.2 versions prior to 18.2R2-S7 18.2R3-S3 on vMX; 18.2X75 versions prior to 18.2X75-D420 18.2X75-D60 on vMX; 18.3 versions prior to 18.3R1-S7 18.3R2-S3 18.3R3-S1 on vMX; 18.4 versions prior to 18.4R1-S5 18.4R2-S3 18.4R3 on vMX; 19.1 versions prior to 19.1R1-S4 19.1R2 19.1R3 on vMX; 19.2 versions prior to 19.2R1-S3 19.2R2 on vMX; 19.3 versions prior to 19.3R1-S1 19.3R2 on vMX.

CVSS Vector

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

Reference

https://kb.juniper.net/JSA10998

Attack Complexity

LOW

Privileges Required

NONE

User Interaction Required

NONE

Scope

NONE

Confidentiality Impact

UNCHANGED

Integrity Impact

HIGH

Availability Impact

HIGH

Base Score

HIGH

Base Severity

9.8