CVE-2023-36846
A Missing Authentication for Critical Function vulnerability in Juniper Networks Junos OS on SRX Series allows an unauthenticated, network-based attacker to cause limited impact to the file system integrity.With a specific request to user.php that doesn't require authentication an attacker is able to upload arbitrary files via J-Web, leading to a loss of integrityfor a certain part of the file system, which may allow chaining to other vulnerabilities.This issue affects Juniper Networks Junos OS on SRX Series: * All versions prior to 20.4R3-S8; * 21.1 versions 21.1R1 and later; * 21.2 versions prior to 21.2R3-S6; * 21.3 versions prior to 21.3R3-S5; * 21.4 versions prior to 21.4R3-S5; * 22.1 versions prior to 22.1R3-S3; * 22.2 versions prior to 22.2R3-S2; * 22.3 versions prior to 22.3R2-S2, 22.3R3; * 22.4 versions prior to 22.4R2-S1, 22.4R3.
- CVSS v3.1
- 5.3 MEDIUM
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N - CVSS v3.1
- 5.3 MEDIUM
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N - EPSS
- 95.10% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, 100th percentile
- CISA KEV
- added 2023-11-13
- Published
- 2023-08-17
- Updated
- 2025-10-21
Proof-of-concept exploits (2)
- Chocapikk/CVE-2023-368465★ · 2026-01-08
- r3dcl1ff/CVE-2023-36844_Juniper_RCE5★ · 2023-09-24