CVE-2026-21916 (GCVE-0-2026-21916)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2026-04-09 21:28
Modified
2026-04-13 13:04
Severity ?
VLAI Severity ?
EPSS score ?
CWE
- CWE-61 - UNIX Symbolic Link (Symlink) Following
Summary
A UNIX Symbolic Link (Symlink) Following vulnerability in the CLI of Juniper Networks Junos OS allows a local, authenticated attacker with low privileges to escalate their privileges to root which will lead to a complete compromise of the system.
When after a user has performed a specific 'file link ...' CLI operation, another user commits (unrelated configuration changes), the first user can login as root.
This issue affects Junos OS:
* all versions before 23.2R2-S7,
* 23.4 versions before 23.4R2-S6,
* 24.2 versions before 24.2R2-S3,
* 24.4 versions before 24.4R2-S2,
* 25.2 versions before 25.2R2.
This issue does not affect versions 25.4R1 or later.
References
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Impacted products
| Vendor | Product | Version | ||
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| Juniper Networks | Junos OS |
Version: 0 ≤ Version: 23.4 ≤ Version: 24.2 ≤ Version: 24.4 ≤ Version: 25.2 ≤ |
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