CVE Vulnerabilities

CVE-2016-1267

Concurrent Execution using Shared Resource with Improper Synchronization ('Race Condition')

Published: Apr 15, 2016 | Modified: Apr 12, 2025
CVSS 3.x
6.7
MEDIUM
Source:
NVD
CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CVSS 2.x
4.4 MEDIUM
AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
RedHat/V2
RedHat/V3
Ubuntu

Race condition in the RPC functionality in Juniper Junos OS before 12.1X44-D55, 12.1X46 before 12.1X46-D40, 12.1X47 before 12.1X47-D25, 12.3 before 12.3R11, 12.3X48 before 12.3X48-D20, 13.2 before 13.2R8, 13.2X51 before 13.2X51-D39, 13.3 before 13.3R7, 14.1 before 14.1R6, 14.1X53 before 14.1X53-D30, 14.2 before 14.2R3-S4, 15.1 before 15.1F2, or 15.1R2, 15.1X49 before 15.1X49-D20, and 16.1 before 16.1R1 allows local users to read, delete, or modify arbitrary files via unspecified vectors.

Weakness

The product contains a concurrent code sequence that requires temporary, exclusive access to a shared resource, but a timing window exists in which the shared resource can be modified by another code sequence operating concurrently.

Affected Software

Name Vendor Start Version End Version
Junos Juniper * 12.1x44 (including)
Junos Juniper 12.1x46 (including) 12.1x46 (including)
Junos Juniper 12.1x46-d10 (including) 12.1x46-d10 (including)
Junos Juniper 12.1x46-d15 (including) 12.1x46-d15 (including)
Junos Juniper 12.1x46-d20 (including) 12.1x46-d20 (including)
Junos Juniper 12.1x46-d25 (including) 12.1x46-d25 (including)
Junos Juniper 12.1x46-d30 (including) 12.1x46-d30 (including)
Junos Juniper 12.1x46-d35 (including) 12.1x46-d35 (including)
Junos Juniper 12.1x47 (including) 12.1x47 (including)
Junos Juniper 12.1x47-d10 (including) 12.1x47-d10 (including)
Junos Juniper 12.1x47-d15 (including) 12.1x47-d15 (including)
Junos Juniper 12.1x47-d20 (including) 12.1x47-d20 (including)
Junos Juniper 12.3 (including) 12.3 (including)
Junos Juniper 12.3-r1 (including) 12.3-r1 (including)
Junos Juniper 12.3-r10 (including) 12.3-r10 (including)
Junos Juniper 12.3-r2 (including) 12.3-r2 (including)
Junos Juniper 12.3-r3 (including) 12.3-r3 (including)
Junos Juniper 12.3-r4 (including) 12.3-r4 (including)
Junos Juniper 12.3-r5 (including) 12.3-r5 (including)
Junos Juniper 12.3-r6 (including) 12.3-r6 (including)
Junos Juniper 12.3-r7 (including) 12.3-r7 (including)
Junos Juniper 12.3-r8 (including) 12.3-r8 (including)
Junos Juniper 12.3-r9 (including) 12.3-r9 (including)
Junos Juniper 12.3x48-d10 (including) 12.3x48-d10 (including)
Junos Juniper 12.3x48-d15 (including) 12.3x48-d15 (including)
Junos Juniper 13.2 (including) 13.2 (including)
Junos Juniper 13.2-r1 (including) 13.2-r1 (including)
Junos Juniper 13.2-r2 (including) 13.2-r2 (including)
Junos Juniper 13.2-r3 (including) 13.2-r3 (including)
Junos Juniper 13.2-r4 (including) 13.2-r4 (including)
Junos Juniper 13.2-r5 (including) 13.2-r5 (including)
Junos Juniper 13.2-r6 (including) 13.2-r6 (including)
Junos Juniper 13.2-r7 (including) 13.2-r7 (including)
Junos Juniper 13.2-r7-s1 (including) 13.2-r7-s1 (including)
Junos Juniper 13.2-r7-s2 (including) 13.2-r7-s2 (including)
Junos Juniper 13.2x51-d15 (including) 13.2x51-d15 (including)
Junos Juniper 13.2x51-d20 (including) 13.2x51-d20 (including)
Junos Juniper 13.2x51-d21 (including) 13.2x51-d21 (including)
Junos Juniper 13.2x51-d25 (including) 13.2x51-d25 (including)
Junos Juniper 13.2x51-d26 (including) 13.2x51-d26 (including)
Junos Juniper 13.2x51-d30 (including) 13.2x51-d30 (including)
Junos Juniper 13.2x51-d35 (including) 13.2x51-d35 (including)
Junos Juniper 13.3 (including) 13.3 (including)
Junos Juniper 13.3-r1 (including) 13.3-r1 (including)
Junos Juniper 13.3-r2 (including) 13.3-r2 (including)
Junos Juniper 13.3-r2-s2 (including) 13.3-r2-s2 (including)
Junos Juniper 13.3-r3 (including) 13.3-r3 (including)
Junos Juniper 13.3-r4 (including) 13.3-r4 (including)
Junos Juniper 13.3-r5 (including) 13.3-r5 (including)
Junos Juniper 13.3-r6 (including) 13.3-r6 (including)
Junos Juniper 14.1 (including) 14.1 (including)
Junos Juniper 14.1-r1 (including) 14.1-r1 (including)
Junos Juniper 14.1-r2 (including) 14.1-r2 (including)
Junos Juniper 14.1-r3 (including) 14.1-r3 (including)
Junos Juniper 14.1-r4 (including) 14.1-r4 (including)
Junos Juniper 14.1-r5 (including) 14.1-r5 (including)
Junos Juniper 14.1x53 (including) 14.1x53 (including)
Junos Juniper 14.1x53-d10 (including) 14.1x53-d10 (including)
Junos Juniper 14.1x53-d15 (including) 14.1x53-d15 (including)
Junos Juniper 14.1x53-d16 (including) 14.1x53-d16 (including)
Junos Juniper 14.1x53-d25 (including) 14.1x53-d25 (including)
Junos Juniper 14.1x53-d26 (including) 14.1x53-d26 (including)
Junos Juniper 14.2-r1 (including) 14.2-r1 (including)
Junos Juniper 14.2-r2 (including) 14.2-r2 (including)
Junos Juniper 14.2-r3 (including) 14.2-r3 (including)
Junos Juniper 15.1 (including) 15.1 (including)
Junos Juniper 15.1x49-d10 (including) 15.1x49-d10 (including)
Junos Juniper 16.1 (including) 16.1 (including)

Extended Description

A race condition occurs within concurrent environments, and it is effectively a property of a code sequence. Depending on the context, a code sequence may be in the form of a function call, a small number of instructions, a series of program invocations, etc. A race condition violates these properties, which are closely related:

A race condition exists when an “interfering code sequence” can still access the shared resource, violating exclusivity. The interfering code sequence could be “trusted” or “untrusted.” A trusted interfering code sequence occurs within the product; it cannot be modified by the attacker, and it can only be invoked indirectly. An untrusted interfering code sequence can be authored directly by the attacker, and typically it is external to the vulnerable product.

Potential Mitigations

  • Minimize the usage of shared resources in order to remove as much complexity as possible from the control flow and to reduce the likelihood of unexpected conditions occurring.
  • Additionally, this will minimize the amount of synchronization necessary and may even help to reduce the likelihood of a denial of service where an attacker may be able to repeatedly trigger a critical section (CWE-400).

References