CVE-2024-30406 Information disclosure in Junos OS Evolved
A local high-privileged attacker can read other administrators' credentials stored in cleartext on Juniper ACX devices with Paragon Active Assurance installed.
- Exploited in the wild
- Not known
- Login needed
- An administrator
- Attackable
- Local or same network only
- Victim action needed
- A user has to click or open something
- Fix
- None listed
What is CVE-2024-30406?
CVE-2024-30406 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Juniper Junos Os Evolved, published on 12 Apr 2024. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, and only if a user opens a file or follows a link.
Official description
A Cleartext Storage in a File on Disk vulnerability in Juniper Networks Junos OS Evolved ACX Series devices using the Paragon Active Assurance Test Agent software installed on network devices allows a local, authenticated attacker with high privileges to read all other users login credentials.
This issue affects only Juniper Networks Junos OS Evolved ACX Series devices using the Paragon Active Assurance Test Agent software installed on these devices from 23.1R1-EVO through 23.2R2-EVO.
This issue does not affect releases before 23.1R1-EVO.
Weakness: CWE-313
Which versions are affected by CVE-2024-30406?
It affects 2 products.
Products include Juniper Junos Os Evolved, Juniper Paragon Active Assurance Test Agent.
How do I fix CVE-2024-30406?
No fix has been published for CVE-2024-30406 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.
Is CVE-2024-30406 being exploited?
There is no known exploitation of CVE-2024-30406 in the wild and no public exploit code.
Other vulnerabilities in Juniper Junos Os Evolved
- CVE-2026-21902 Junos OS Evolved: PTX Series: A vulnerability allows a unauthenticated, network-based attacker to execute code as root
- CVE-2023-28983 Junos OS Evolved: Shell Injection vulnerability in the gNOI server
- CVE-2025-21599 Denial of service in Junos OS Evolved
- CVE-2024-47502 Junos OS Evolved: TCP session state is not always cleared on the Routing Engine leading to DoS
- CVE-2024-39531 Junos OS Evolved: ACX 7000 Series: Protocol specific DDoS configuration affects other protocols
Sources
Also known as GHSA-vgc6-c45c-9998.