01 Record
CVE-2021-0248
NFX Series: Hard-coded credentials allow an attacker to take control of any instance through administrative interfaces.
CriticalPUBLISHEDCNA: juniper
CNA base score10.0 CVSS v3.xCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H
02 Description
NFX Series: Hard-coded credentials allow an attacker to take control of any instance through administrative interfaces.
03 Exploitation and scoring
- Exploitation
- Not assessed. CISA has not published an exploitation assessment for this record, and it is not in the KEV catalog. That is an absence of assessment, not a finding of no risk.
- SSVC decision
- Not assessed by CISA
- EPSS probability
- 1.03% probability of exploitation activity in the next 30 days.
- EPSS percentile
- Equal to or higher than the score of 63.3% of scored records. A rank, not a probability.
- NVD base score
- 10.0 (CVSS v3.x), scored by the NVD independently of the CNA.
- NVD CVSS vector
- CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H
- NVD analysis status
- Modified. NVD last modified this record on 2026-06-17.
- Red Hat severity
- No Red Hat rating. Red Hat rates the CVEs that affect its products.
Exploit-prediction scores from FIRST. Independent scoring and analysis status from the NVD. Vendor severity from Red Hat. Exploitation assessment and catalog membership from CISA.
04 Metadata
- Published
- 2021-04-22 19:37Z5 YR AGO
- Last updated
- 2024-09-16 22:09Z2 YR AGO
- Reserved
- 2020-10-27
- Assigning CNA
- juniper
- Record state
- PUBLISHED
- Severity
- Critical (CVSS 10.0)
- CNA CVSS vector
- CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H
- Weaknesses
- CWE-798Use of Hard-coded CredentialsBase
- Data version
- 5.1
- Document digest
- 1d3ea83704de5ce8b4b18744f6b00fd5a5f1a3c1515b5d8c50db09fccad920e5
05 Affected products
VendorProductVersionsPlatforms
06 References
- kb.juniper.nethttps://kb.juniper.net/JSA11141
07 Remediation
The following software releases have been updated to resolve this specific issue: 19.1R1, and all subsequent releases.