CVE Vulnerabilities

CVE-2020-1604

Improper Access Control

Published: Jan 15, 2020 | Modified: Nov 21, 2024
CVSS 3.x
5.3
MEDIUM
Source:
NVD
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N
CVSS 2.x
5 MEDIUM
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N
RedHat/V2
RedHat/V3
Ubuntu

On EX4300, EX4600, QFX3500, and QFX5100 Series, a vulnerability in the IP firewall filter component may cause the firewall filter evaluation of certain packets to fail. This issue only affects firewall filter evaluation of certain packets destined to the device Routing Engine (RE). This issue does not affect the Layer 2 firewall filter evaluation nor does it affect the Layer 3 firewall filter evaluation destined to connected hosts. This issue may occur when evaluating both IPv4 or IPv6 packets. This issue affects Juniper Networks Junos OS: 14.1X53 versions prior to 14.1X53-D12 on QFX5100 Series and EX4600 Series; 14.1X53 versions prior to 14.1X53-D52 on QFX3500 Series; 14.1X53 versions prior to 14.1X53-D48 on EX4300 Series; 15.1 versions prior to 15.1R7-S3 on EX4300 Series; 16.1 versions prior to 16.1R7 on EX4300 Series; 17.1 versions prior to 17.1R3 on EX4300 Series; 17.2 versions prior to 17.2R3 on EX4300 Series; 17.3 versions prior to 17.3R2-S5, 17.3R3 on EX4300 Series; 17.4 versions prior to 17.4R2 on EX4300 Series; 18.1 versions prior to 18.1R3 on EX4300 Series; 18.2 versions prior to 18.2R2 on EX4300 Series.

Weakness

The product does not restrict or incorrectly restricts access to a resource from an unauthorized actor.

Affected Software

Name Vendor Start Version End Version
Junos Juniper 14.1x53 (including) 14.1x53 (including)
Junos Juniper 14.1x53-d10 (including) 14.1x53-d10 (including)

Extended Description

Access control involves the use of several protection mechanisms such as:

When any mechanism is not applied or otherwise fails, attackers can compromise the security of the product by gaining privileges, reading sensitive information, executing commands, evading detection, etc. There are two distinct behaviors that can introduce access control weaknesses:

Potential Mitigations

  • Compartmentalize the system to have “safe” areas where trust boundaries can be unambiguously drawn. Do not allow sensitive data to go outside of the trust boundary and always be careful when interfacing with a compartment outside of the safe area.
  • Ensure that appropriate compartmentalization is built into the system design, and the compartmentalization allows for and reinforces privilege separation functionality. Architects and designers should rely on the principle of least privilege to decide the appropriate time to use privileges and the time to drop privileges.

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