Juniper Networks Junos OS J-Web Privilege Escalation Vulnerability

# SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2016 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("1.3.6.1.4.1.25623.1.0.106135");
  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:"2016-07-14 10:16:23 +0700 (Thu, 14 Jul 2016)");
  script_tag(name:"cvss_base", value:"10.0");
  script_tag(name:"cvss_base_vector", value:"AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C");
  script_tag(name:"severity_vector", value:"CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H");
  script_tag(name:"severity_origin", value:"NVD");
  script_tag(name:"severity_date", value:"2017-09-01 01:29:00 +0000 (Fri, 01 Sep 2017)");

  script_tag(name:"qod_type", value:"package");

  script_tag(name:"solution_type", value:"VendorFix");

  script_cve_id("CVE-2016-1279");

  script_name("Juniper Networks Junos OS J-Web Privilege Escalation Vulnerability");

  script_category(ACT_GATHER_INFO);

  script_family("JunOS Local Security Checks");
  script_copyright("Copyright (C) 2016 Greenbone AG");
  script_dependencies("gb_juniper_junos_consolidation.nasl");
  script_mandatory_keys("juniper/junos/detected", "juniper/junos/build");

  script_tag(name:"summary", value:"Junos OS with J-Web enabled is prone to a 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:"An information leak vulnerability in J-Web may allow unauthenticated
remote users with network access to the J-Web service to gain administrative privileges or perform certain
administrative actions on the device.");

  script_tag(name:"impact", value:"An unauthenticated attacker may gain administrative privileges.");

  script_tag(name:"affected", value:"Junos OS 12.1, 12.3, 13.3, 14.1, 14.2 and 15.1");

  script_tag(name:"solution", value:"New builds of Junos OS software are available from Juniper. As a
workaround disable J-Web.");

  script_xref(name:"URL", value:"http://kb.juniper.net/JSA10754");

  exit(0);
}

include("host_details.inc");
include("revisions-lib.inc");
include("version_func.inc");

if (!version = get_app_version(cpe: CPE, nofork: TRUE))
  exit(0);

if ((revcomp(a: version, b: "12.1X46-D45") < 0) ||
    (version =~ "^12\.1X46-D50")) {
  report = report_fixed_ver(installed_version: version, fixed_version: "12.1X46-D45");
  security_message(port: 0, data: report);
  exit(0);
}

if (version =~ "^12") {
  if ((revcomp(a: version, b: "12.1X47-D35") < 0) &&
      (revcomp(a: version, b: "12.1X47") >= 0)) {
    report = report_fixed_ver(installed_version: version, fixed_version: "12.1X47-D35");
    security_message(port: 0, data: report);
    exit(0);
  }
  else if ((revcomp(a: version, b: "12.3R12") < 0) &&
           (revcomp(a: version, b: "12.3R") >= 0)) {
    report = report_fixed_ver(installed_version: version, fixed_version: "12.3R12");
    security_message(port: 0, data: report);
    exit(0);
  }
  else if ((revcomp(a: version, b: "12.3X48-D25") < 0) &&
           (revcomp(a: version, b: "12.3X48") >= 0)) {
    report = report_fixed_ver(installed_version: version, fixed_version: "12.3X48-D25");
    security_message(port: 0, data: report);
    exit(0);
  }
}

if (version =~ "^13") {
  if (revcomp(a: version, b: "13.3R10") < 0) {
    report = report_fixed_ver(installed_version: version, fixed_version: "13.3R10");
    security_message(port: 0, data: report);
    exit(0);
  }
}

if (version =~ "^14") {
  if (revcomp(a: version, b: "14.1R7") < 0) {
    report = report_fixed_ver(installed_version: version, fixed_version: "14.1R7");
    security_message(port: 0, data: report);
    exit(0);
  }
  else if ((revcomp(a: version, b: "14.1X53-D35") < 0) &&
           (revcomp(a: version, b: "14.1X53") >= 0)) {
    report = report_fixed_ver(installed_version: version, fixed_version: "14.1X53-D35");
    security_message(port: 0, data: report);
    exit(0);
  }
  else if ((revcomp(a: version, b: "14.2R6") < 0) &&
           (revcomp(a: version, b: "14.2") >= 0)) {
    report = report_fixed_ver(installed_version: version, fixed_version: "14.2R6");
    security_message(port: 0, data: report);
    exit(0);
  }
}

if (version =~ "^15") {
  if (revcomp(a: version, b: "15.1A2") < 0) {
    report = report_fixed_ver(installed_version: version, fixed_version: "15.1A2");
    security_message(port: 0, data: report);
    exit(0);
  }
  else if ((revcomp(a: version, b: "15.1F4") < 0) &&
           (revcomp(a: version, b: "15.1F") >= 0)) {
   report = report_fixed_ver(installed_version: version, fixed_version: "15.1F4");
    security_message(port: 0, data: report);
    exit(0);
  }
  else if ((revcomp(a: version, b: "15.1R3") < 0) &&
           (revcomp(a: version, b: "15.1R") >= 0)) {
    report = report_fixed_ver(installed_version: version, fixed_version: "15.1R3");
    security_message(port: 0, data: report);
    exit(0);
  }
  else if ((revcomp(a: version, b: "15.1X49-D30") < 0) &&
           (revcomp(a: version, b: "15.1X49") >= 0)) {
    report = report_fixed_ver(installed_version: version, fixed_version: "15.1X49-D30");
    security_message(port: 0, data: report);
    exit(0);
  }
}

exit(99);