CVE Vulnerabilities

CVE-2021-0296

Cleartext Transmission of Sensitive Information

Published: Oct 19, 2021 | Modified: Oct 25, 2021
CVSS 3.x
N/A
Source:
NVD
CVSS 2.x
5.8 MEDIUM
AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:N
RedHat/V2
RedHat/V3
Ubuntu

The Juniper Networks CTPView server is not enforcing HTTP Strict Transport Security (HSTS). HSTS is an optional response header which allows servers to indicate that content from the requested domain will only be served over HTTPS. The lack of HSTS may leave the system vulnerable to downgrade attacks, SSL-stripping man-in-the-middle attacks, and weakens cookie-hijacking protections. This issue affects Juniper Networks CTPView: 7.3 versions prior to 7.3R7; 9.1 versions prior to 9.1R3.

Weakness

The product transmits sensitive or security-critical data in cleartext in a communication channel that can be sniffed by unauthorized actors.

Affected Software

Name Vendor Start Version End Version
Ctpview Juniper 7.3-r1 (including) 7.3-r1 (including)
Ctpview Juniper 7.3-r2 (including) 7.3-r2 (including)
Ctpview Juniper 7.3-r3 (including) 7.3-r3 (including)
Ctpview Juniper 7.3-r4 (including) 7.3-r4 (including)
Ctpview Juniper 7.3-r5 (including) 7.3-r5 (including)
Ctpview Juniper 7.3-r6 (including) 7.3-r6 (including)
Ctpview Juniper 9.1-r1 (including) 9.1-r1 (including)
Ctpview Juniper 9.1-r2 (including) 9.1-r2 (including)

Extended Description

Many communication channels can be “sniffed” (monitored) by adversaries during data transmission. For example, in networking, packets can traverse many intermediary nodes from the source to the destination, whether across the internet, an internal network, the cloud, etc. Some actors might have privileged access to a network interface or any link along the channel, such as a router, but they might not be authorized to collect the underlying data. As a result, network traffic could be sniffed by adversaries, spilling security-critical data. Applicable communication channels are not limited to software products. Applicable channels include hardware-specific technologies such as internal hardware networks and external debug channels, supporting remote JTAG debugging. When mitigations are not applied to combat adversaries within the product’s threat model, this weakness significantly lowers the difficulty of exploitation by such adversaries. When full communications are recorded or logged, such as with a packet dump, an adversary could attempt to obtain the dump long after the transmission has occurred and try to “sniff” the cleartext from the recorded communications in the dump itself.

Potential Mitigations

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