Juniper Networks Junos OS Local Privilege Escalation Vulnerability
🗓️ 14 Jul 2015 00:00:00Reported by Copyright (C) 2015 Greenbone AGType
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| Reporter | Title | Published | Views | Family All 7 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Juniper SRX Series services gateways privilege acquisition vulnerability | 16 Jul 201500:00 | – | cnvd | |
| CVE-2015-3007 | 14 Jul 201517:00 | – | cve | |
| CVE-2015-3007 | 14 Jul 201517:00 | – | cvelist | |
| EUVD-2015-3089 | 7 Oct 202500:30 | – | euvd | |
| Juniper Junos SRX Series 'set system ports console insecure' Local Privilege Escalation (JSA10683) | 4 Aug 201500:00 | – | nessus | |
| CVE-2015-3007 | 14 Jul 201517:59 | – | nvd | |
| Design/Logic Flaw | 14 Jul 201517:59 | – | prion |
| Source | Link |
|---|---|
| kb | www.kb.juniper.net/JSA10683 |
# SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2015 Greenbone AG
# Some text descriptions might be excerpted from (a) referenced
# source(s), and are Copyright (C) by the respective right holder(s).
#
# SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-only
CPE = "cpe:/o:juniper:junos";
if (description)
{
script_oid("1.3.6.1.4.1.25623.1.0.106018");
script_version("2026-04-24T06:23:04+0000");
script_tag(name:"last_modification", value:"2026-04-24 06:23:04 +0000 (Fri, 24 Apr 2026)");
script_tag(name:"creation_date", value:"2015-07-14 10:58:02 +0700 (Tue, 14 Jul 2015)");
script_tag(name:"cvss_base", value:"7.2");
script_tag(name:"cvss_base_vector", value:"AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C");
script_tag(name:"qod_type", value:"package");
script_tag(name:"solution_type", value:"VendorFix");
script_cve_id("CVE-2015-3007");
script_name("Juniper Networks Junos OS Local Privilege Escalation Vulnerability");
script_category(ACT_GATHER_INFO);
script_family("JunOS Local Security Checks");
script_copyright("Copyright (C) 2015 Greenbone AG");
script_dependencies("gb_juniper_junos_consolidation.nasl");
script_mandatory_keys("juniper/junos/detected", "juniper/junos/model");
script_tag(name:"summary", value:"Junos OS is prone to a local privilege escalation vulnerability.");
script_tag(name:"vuldetect", value:"Checks if a vulnerable OS build is present on the target host.");
script_tag(name:"insight", value:"On SRX Series services gateways, the 'set system ports console insecure'
feature does not work as expected. This feature is intended to prevent non-root users from performing
password recovery using the console (see KB22619). This issue affects SRX Series services gateways only.
No other Junos devices are affected.");
script_tag(name:"impact", value:"This vulnerability may allow a non-root user with physical access
to the console port to gain full administrative privileges.");
script_tag(name:"affected", value:"Junos OS 12.1X46, 12.1X47 and 12.1X48");
script_tag(name:"solution", value:"New builds of Junos OS software are available from Juniper.");
script_xref(name:"URL", value:"http://kb.juniper.net/JSA10683");
exit(0);
}
include("host_details.inc");
include("revisions-lib.inc");
model = get_kb_item("juniper/junos/model");
if (!model || (model !~ '^SRX[0-9]+'))
exit(99);
if (!version = get_app_version(cpe: CPE, nofork: TRUE))
exit(0);
if (version =~ "^12\.1X") {
if ((revcomp(a: version, b: "12.1X46-D35") < 0) &&
(revcomp(a: version, b: "12.1X46") >= 0)) {
security_message(port:0, data:version);
exit(0);
}
else if ((revcomp(a:version, b:"12.1X47-D25") < 0) &&
(revcomp(a:version, b:"12.1X47") >= 0)) {
security_message(port:0, data:version);
exit(0);
}
else if ((revcomp(a:version, b:"12.1X48-D15") < 0) &&
(revcomp(a:version, b:"12.1X48") >= 0)) {
security_message(port:0, data:version);
exit(0);
}
}
exit(99);
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24 Apr 2026 00:00Current
5.1Medium risk
Vulners AI Score5.1
CVSS 27.2
EPSS0.0037