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Juniper Networks Junos OS Certification Validation Vulnerability

🗓️ 14 Jul 2016 00:00:00Reported by Copyright (C) 2016 Greenbone AGType 
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Juniper Networks Junos OS Certification Validation Vulnerability. PKId vulnerability allows self-signed certificate bypass

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# 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("1.3.6.1.4.1.25623.1.0.106136");
  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:"6.4");
  script_tag(name:"cvss_base_vector", value:"AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:N");
  script_tag(name:"severity_vector", value:"CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:N");
  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-2016-1280");

  script_name("Juniper Networks Junos OS Certification Validation 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");

  script_tag(name:"summary", value:"Junos OS is prone to a certification verification vulnerability.");

  script_tag(name:"vuldetect", value:"Checks if a vulnerable OS build is present on the target host.");

  script_tag(name:"insight", value:"Junos OS runs PKId for certificate validation. When a peer device
presents a self-signed certificate as its end entity certificate with its issuer name matching one of the
valid CA certificates enrolled in Junos, the peer certificate validation is skipped and the peer certificate
is treated as valid.");

  script_tag(name:"impact", value:"An attacker may be able to generate a specially crafted self-signed
certificate and bypass certificate validation.");

  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.");

  script_xref(name:"URL", value:"http://kb.juniper.net/JSA10755");

  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: "12.1X44-D52") < 0) {
  report = report_fixed_ver(installed_version: version, fixed_version: "12.1X44-D52");
  security_message(port: 0, data: report);
  exit(0);
}

if (version =~ "^12") {
  if ((revcomp(a: version, b: "12.1X46-D37") < 0) &&
      (revcomp(a: version, b: "12.1X46") >= 0)) {
    report = report_fixed_ver(installed_version: version, fixed_version: "12.1X46-D37");
    security_message(port: 0, data: report);
    exit(0);
  }
  else if ((revcomp(a: version, b: "12.1X47-D30") < 0) &&
           (revcomp(a: version, b: "12.1X47") >= 0)) {
    report = report_fixed_ver(installed_version: version, fixed_version: "12.1X47-D30");
    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-D20") < 0) &&
           (revcomp(a: version, b: "12.3X48") >= 0)) {
    report = report_fixed_ver(installed_version: version, fixed_version: "12.3X48-D20");
    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: "14.1R8") < 0) {
    report = report_fixed_ver(installed_version: version, fixed_version: "14.1R8");
    security_message(port: 0, data: report);
    exit(0);
  }
  else if ((revcomp(a: version, b: "14.1X53-D40") < 0) &&
           (revcomp(a: version, b: "14.1X53") >= 0)) {
    report = report_fixed_ver(installed_version: version, fixed_version: "14.1X53-D40");
    security_message(port: 0, data: report);
    exit(0);
  }
  else if ((revcomp(a: version, b: "14.2R7") < 0) &&
           (revcomp(a: version, b: "14.2") >= 0)) {
    report = report_fixed_ver(installed_version: version, fixed_version: "14.2R7");
    security_message(port: 0, data: report);
    exit(0);
  }
}

if (version =~ "^15") {
  if (revcomp(a: version, b: "15.1R4") < 0) {
    report = report_fixed_ver(installed_version: version, fixed_version: "15.1R4");
    security_message(port: 0, data: report);
    exit(0);
  }
  else if ((revcomp(a: version, b: "15.1X49-D20") < 0) &&
           (revcomp(a: version, b: "15.1X49") >= 0)) {
    report = report_fixed_ver(installed_version: version, fixed_version: "15.1X49-D20");
    security_message(port: 0, data: report);
    exit(0);
  }
  else if ((revcomp(a: version, b: "15.1X53-D60") < 0) &&
           (revcomp(a: version, b: "15.1X53") >= 0)) {
    report = report_fixed_ver(installed_version: version, fixed_version: "15.1X53-D60");
    security_message(port: 0, data: report);
    exit(0);
  }
}

exit(99);

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24 Apr 2026 00:00Current
6.3Medium risk
Vulners AI Score6.3
CVSS 26.4
CVSS 36.5
EPSS0.00666
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