CVE-2021-0256

Description

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.

Risk Information

Base Score
5.5
MODERATE
Vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
EPSS Score
Exploitation Probability
0.035

Associated Vulnerability

VulnerabilityOS Platform
Multiple Vulnerabilities are fixed in junos 17.3R3-S12NCM
Vulnerabilities CVE-2021-0224,CVE-2021-0254,CVE-2021-0255,CVE-2021-0256 are fixed in junos 17.4R2-S13NCM
Multiple Vulnerabilities are fixed in junos 18.1R3-S12NCM
Vulnerabilities CVE-2021-0254,CVE-2021-0255,CVE-2021-0256,CVE-2021-0259 are fixed in junos 18.2R2-S8NCM
Multiple Vulnerabilities are fixed in junos 18.3R3-S4NCM
Vulnerabilities CVE-2021-0255,CVE-2021-0256 are fixed in junos 18.4R2-S7NCM
Multiple Vulnerabilities are fixed in junos 19.1R3-S4NCM
Multiple Vulnerabilities are fixed in junos 19.2R3-S2NCM
Multiple Vulnerabilities are fixed in junos 19.3R3-S2NCM
Multiple Vulnerabilities are fixed in junos 19.4R3-S2NCM
Multiple Vulnerabilities are fixed in junos 20.1R2NCM
Vulnerabilities CVE-2021-0235,CVE-2021-0255,CVE-2021-0256 are fixed in junos 20.2R2-S1NCM
Vulnerabilities CVE-2021-0255,CVE-2021-0256,CVE-2021-0257 are fixed in junos 20.3R1-S1NCM
Multiple Vulnerabilities are fixed in junos 20.4R2.NCM
Execution with Unnecessary Privileges Vulnerability (CVE-2021-0256)NCM

Patch Details

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Patch IDPatch Description
PATCH-1704488Security Update for junos 9.2r1
PATCH-1704488Security Update for junos 9.2r1
PATCH-1704488Security Update for junos 9.2r1
PATCH-1704488Security Update for junos 9.2r1
PATCH-1704488Security Update for junos 9.2r1
PATCH-1704488Security Update for junos 9.2r1
PATCH-1704488Security Update for junos 9.2r1
PATCH-1704488Security Update for junos 9.2r1
PATCH-1704488Security Update for junos 9.2r1
PATCH-1704488Security Update for junos 9.2r1
PATCH-1704488Security Update for junos 9.2r1
PATCH-1704488Security Update for junos 9.2r1
PATCH-1704488Security Update for junos 9.2r1
PATCH-1704488Security Update for junos 9.2r1

References

https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2023-1234
https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2023-1234