CVE-2021-31352

SRC Series: NETCONF over SSH allows negotiation of weak ciphers

Published Oct 19, 2021 CVSS 3.1 · 5.3 Medium EPSS < 1% KEV · Not listed
Description
An Information Exposure vulnerability in Juniper Networks SRC Series devices configured for NETCONF over SSH permits the negotiation of weak ciphers, which could allow a remote attacker to obtain sensitive information. A remote attacker with read and write access to network data could exploit this vulnerability to display plaintext bits from a block of ciphertext and obtain sensitive information. This issue affects all Juniper Networks SRC Series versions prior to 4.13.0-R6.

Remediation

Vendor Solution

A hotfix has been created to resolve this issue. Contact Juniper Networks Technical Support to request the hotfix. Weak ciphers are now disabled by default. Only the following ciphers and key-exchange (KEX) algorithms are now enabled by default: • Ciphers: chacha20-poly1305@openssh.com,aes128-ctr,aes192-ctr,aes256-ctr,aes128-gcm@openssh.com,aes256-gcm@openssh.com • KEX Algorithms: curve25519-sha256,curve25519-sha256@libssh.org,ecdh-sha2-nistp256,ecdh-sha2-nistp384,ecdh-sha2-nistp521,diffie-hellman-group-exchange-sha256,diffie-hellman-group16-sha512,diffie-hellman-group18-sha512,diffie-hellman-group14-sha256,diffie-hellman-group14-sha1 Note: After upgrading to a fixed release, any manually configured weak ciphers or KEX algorithms for NETCONF will be retained. Administrators should reset their cipher configuration by typing: root@src# delete system services netconf ssh root@src# commit Stopping NETCONF/SSH: commit complete. root@src# set system services netconf ssh


Vendor Workaround

There are no viable workarounds for this issue.

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Advisories

Source ID Title
EUVD EUVD EUVD-2021-18262 An Information Exposure vulnerability in Juniper Networks SRC Series devices configured for NETCONF over SSH permits the negotiation of weak ciphers, which could allow a remote attacker to obtain sensitive information. A remote attacker with read and write access to network data could exploit this vulnerability to display plaintext bits from a block of ciphertext and obtain sensitive information. This issue affects all Juniper Networks SRC Series versions prior to 4.13.0-R6.
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History

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Weaknesses

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Status
PUBLISHED
Assigner
juniper
Published
Updated
Sep 16, 2024, 7:20 PM
Reserved
Apr 15, 2021, 12:00 AM
Status
Modified
Published
Oct 19, 2021, 7:15 PM
Modified
Jun 17, 2026, 3:51 AM