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Vigil@nce - Juniper Junos: privilege escalation via pam.conf
December 2015 by Vigil@nce
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SYNTHESIS OF THE VULNERABILITY
A local attacker can wait for the corruption of the pam.conf file
of Juniper Junos, in order to escalate his privileges.
Impacted products: Juniper J-Series, JUNOS.
Severity: 2/4.
Creation date: 15/10/2015.
DESCRIPTION OF THE VULNERABILITY
The pam.conf file indicates the configuration of Pluggable
Authentication Modules.
However, during a normal usage, this file can be corrupted. The
root user can thus authenticate without entering a password.
A local attacker can therefore wait for the corruption of the
pam.conf file of Juniper Junos, in order to escalate his
privileges.
ACCESS TO THE COMPLETE VIGIL@NCE BULLETIN
http://vigilance.fr/vulnerability/Juniper-Junos-privilege-escalation-via-pam-conf-18109
