Privilege escalation in Juniper ATP - CVE-2019-0029
Published: January 15, 2019
Vulnerability identifier: #VU16985
CSH Severity: Low
CVSS v4: 8.5 [CVSS:4.0/AV:L/AC:L/AT:N/PR:L/UI:N/VC:H/VI:H/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N]
CVE-ID: CVE-2019-0029
CWE-ID: CWE-259
Exploitation vector: Local access
Exploit availability:
No public exploit available
Vulnerability details
The disclosed vulnerability allows a local low-privileged attacker to gain elevated privileges.
The vulnerability exists due to Juniper ATP uses DES and a hardcoded salt for password hashing. A local attacker can to access the Splunk server and execute arbitrary code with elevated privileges.
Affected software
Juniper ATP
How to mitigate CVE-2019-0029
Update to version 5.0.3.
Juniper ATP - update to 5.0.3