CVE-2024-30406
Junos OS Evolved: ACX Series with Paragon Active Assurance Test Agent: A local high privileged attacker can recover other administrators credentials
02 Description
Junos OS Evolved: ACX Series with Paragon Active Assurance Test Agent: A local high privileged attacker can recover other administrators credentials
03 Exploitation and scoring
- Exploitation
- Assessed, none found. CISA's assessment recorded neither public exploit code nor evidence of exploitation when it was made.
- SSVC decision
- ExploitationnoneCISA recorded no public exploit code and no evidence of exploitation.
- AutomatablenoAt least one step from reconnaissance to exploitation cannot be reliably automated.
- Technical ImpactpartialSuccessful exploitation gives limited control of the vulnerable component.
- EPSS probability
- 0.13% probability of exploitation activity in the next 30 days.
- EPSS percentile
- Equal to or higher than the score of 2.9% of scored records. A rank, not a probability.
- NVD base score
- 6.7 (CVSS v4.0), scored by the NVD independently of the CNA.
- NVD CVSS vector
- CVSS:4.0/AV:L/AC:L/AT:N/PR:H/UI:P/VC:H/VI:N/VA:N/SC:H/SI:N/SA:N/E:X/CR:X/IR:X/AR:X/MAV:X/MAC:X/MAT:X/MPR:X/MUI:X/MVC:X/MVI:X/MVA:X/MSC:X/MSI:X/MSA:X/S:X/AU:X/R:X/V:X/RE:X/U:X
- NVD analysis status
- Analyzed. 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
- 2024-04-12 15:04Z2 YR AGO
- Last updated
- 2024-08-02 01:32Z2 YR AGO
- Reserved
- 2024-03-26
- Assigning CNA
- juniper
- Record state
- PUBLISHED
- Severity
- Medium (CVSS 6.7)
- CNA CVSS vector
- CVSS:4.0/AV:L/AC:L/AT:N/PR:H/UI:P/VC:H/VI:N/VA:N/SC:H/SI:N/SA:N
- Weaknesses
- CWE-313Cleartext Storage in a File or on DiskVariant
- Data version
- 5.1
- Document digest
- ce65b06ebb42860c7e67d3ce3b3ef8e968acbe0b5b8590bf9bb2331e3c4cee1e
05 Affected products
06 References
- supportportal.juniper.nethttps://supportportal.juniper.net/JSA79104
- www.juniper.nethttps://www.juniper.net/documentation/us/en/software/junos/junos-install-upgrade-evo/topics/topic-map/paa-test-agent-install.html
- www.juniper.nethttps://www.juniper.net/documentation/us/en/software/junos/cli-reference/topics/ref/statement/services-paa-test-agent.html
- www.first.orghttps://www.first.org/cvss/calculator/4.0#CVSS:4.0/AV:L/AC:L/AT:N/PR:H/UI:P/VC:H/VI:N/VA:N/SC:H/SI:N/SA:N
07 Remediation
The following software releases have been updated to resolve this specific issue: Junos OS Evolved: 23.2R2-EVO, 23.3R1-EVO, and all subsequent releases. Note: Before you upgrade the system software from Junos OS Evolved Release 23.2R1 to a later release, you must uninstall the test agent using the request services paa uninstall command. See the product documentation for upgrade procedures and coordinate with JTAC for support.