CVE-2020-1619

Junos OS: QFX10K Series, EX9200 Series, MX Series, PTX Series: Privilege escalation vulnerability in NG-RE.

Published Apr 8, 2020 CVSS 3.1 · 6 Medium EPSS < 1% KEV · Not listed
Description
A privilege escalation vulnerability in Juniper Networks QFX10K Series, EX9200 Series, MX Series, and PTX Series with Next-Generation Routing Engine (NG-RE), allows a local authenticated high privileged user to access the underlying WRL host. This issue only affects QFX10K Series with NG-RE, EX9200 Series with NG-RE, MX Series with NG-RE and PTX Series with NG-RE; which uses vmhost. This issue affects Juniper Networks Junos OS: 16.1 versions prior to 16.1R7-S6; 16.2 versions prior to 16.2R2-S11; 17.1 versions prior to 17.1R2-S11, 17.1R3; 17.2 versions prior to 17.2R1-S9, 17.2R3-S3; 17.3 versions prior to 17.3R2-S5, 17.3R3-S7; 17.4 versions prior to 17.4R2-S7, 17.4R3; 18.1 versions prior to 18.1R3-S4; 18.2 versions prior to 18.2R3; 18.2X75 versions prior to 18.2X75-D50; 18.3 versions prior to 18.3R2; 18.4 versions prior to 18.4R2. To identify whether the device has NG-RE with vmhost, customer can run the following command: > show vmhost status Compute cluster: rainier-re-cc Compute Node: rainier-re-cn, Online If the "show vmhost status" is not supported, then the device does not have NG-RE with vmhost.

Remediation

Vendor Solution

The following software releases have been updated to resolve this specific issue: 16.1R7-S6, 16.2R2-S11, 17.1R2-S11, 17.1R3, 17.2R1-S9, 17.2R3-S3, 17.3R2-S5, 17.3R3-S7, 17.4R2-S7, 17.4R3, 18.1R3-S4, 18.2R3, 18.2X75-D50, 18.3R2, 18.4R2, 19.1R1 and all subsequent releases.


Vendor Workaround

There are no available workarounds for this issue.

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Advisories

Source ID Title
EUVD EUVD EUVD-2020-12487 A privilege escalation vulnerability in Juniper Networks QFX10K Series, EX9200 Series, MX Series, and PTX Series with Next-Generation Routing Engine (NG-RE), allows a local authenticated high privileged user to access the underlying WRL host. This issue only affects QFX10K Series with NG-RE, EX9200 Series with NG-RE, MX Series with NG-RE and PTX Series with NG-RE; which uses vmhost. This issue affects Juniper Networks Junos OS: 16.1 versions prior to 16.1R7-S6; 16.2 versions prior to 16.2R2-S11; 17.1 versions prior to 17.1R2-S11, 17.1R3; 17.2 versions prior to 17.2R1-S9, 17.2R3-S3; 17.3 versions prior to 17.3R2-S5, 17.3R3-S7; 17.4 versions prior to 17.4R2-S7, 17.4R3; 18.1 versions prior to 18.1R3-S4; 18.2 versions prior to 18.2R3; 18.2X75 versions prior to 18.2X75-D50; 18.3 versions prior to 18.3R2; 18.4 versions prior to 18.4R2. To identify whether the device has NG-RE with vmhost, customer can run the following command: > show vmhost status Compute cluster: rainier-re-cc Compute Node: rainier-re-cn, Online If the "show vmhost status" is not supported, then the device does not have NG-RE with vmhost.
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Status
PUBLISHED
Assigner
juniper
Published
Updated
Sep 17, 2024, 2:27 AM
Reserved
Nov 4, 2019, 12:00 AM
Status
Modified
Published
Apr 8, 2020, 8:15 PM
Modified
Jun 17, 2026, 3:01 AM