CVE-2023-36847
Medium 5.3 Exploited in the wild (KEV)
Confirmed active exploitation — CISA KEV catalog
- Name
- Juniper Junos OS EX Series Missing Authentication for Critical Function Vulnerability
- Added to catalog
- Remediation due date (US federal)
- Required action
- Apply mitigations per vendor instructions or discontinue use of the product if mitigations are unavailable.
Description
A Missing Authentication for Critical Function vulnerability in Juniper Networks Junos OS on EX Series allows an unauthenticated, network-based attacker to cause limited impact to the file system integrity. With a specific request to installAppPackage.php that doesn't require authentication an attacker is able to upload arbitrary files via J-Web, leading to a loss of integrity for a certain part of the file system, which may allow chaining to other vulnerabilities. This issue affects Juniper Networks Junos OS on EX 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-S4; * 22.1 versions prior to 22.1R3-S3; * 22.2 versions prior to 22.2R3-S1; * 22.3 versions prior to 22.3R2-S2, 22.3R3; * 22.4 versions prior to 22.4R2-S1, 22.4R3.
Metrics
- CVSS 3.1
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5.3 (MEDIUM)
Score source: NVD
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N - EPSS — exploit probability
- 83% (percentile: 100) as of 2 November 2026
- CWE
- CWE-306
Affected products
juniper: junos; juniper: ex2200; juniper: ex2200-c; juniper: ex2200-vc; juniper: ex2300; juniper: ex2300-24mp; juniper: ex2300-24p; juniper: ex2300-24t; juniper: ex2300-48mp; juniper: ex2300-48p; juniper: ex2300-48t; juniper: ex2300-c; juniper: ex2300m; juniper: ex3200; juniper: ex3300
References
- https://supportportal.juniper.net/JSA72300 Vendor Advisory
- https://supportportal.juniper.net/JSA72300 Vendor Advisory
- https://www.cisa.gov/known-exploited-vulnerabilities-catalog?field_cve=CVE-2023… US Government Resource