# CVE-2025-11198: Missing authorization in Security Director Policy Enforcer

> Unauthenticated attackers can deploy malicious vSRX images to VMware NSX via an unrestricted API, leading to potential code execution.

- **Severity:** High 8.5 (`CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:P/VC:N/VI:H/VA:N/SC:H/SI:H/SA:H/AU:Y/R:U/V:C/RE:M/U:Red`)
- **Exploited in the wild:** Not known
- **Login needed:** Not needed
- **Attackable:** Over the internet
- **Victim action needed:** A user has to click or open something
- **Fix available:** No
- **Published:** 9 Oct 2025
- **Updated:** 9 Oct 2025
- **Also known as:** GHSA-r277-62xf-9v4g

## What is CVE-2025-11198?

CVE-2025-11198 is a high-severity missing authorization vulnerability in Juniper Networks Security Director Policy Enforcer, published on 9 Oct 2025. An attacker can exploit it over the internet without logging in, and only if a user opens a file or follows a link.

### Official description

A Missing Authentication for Critical Function vulnerability in Juniper Networks Security Director Policy Enforcer allows an unauthenticated, network-based attacker to replace legitimate vSRX images with malicious ones.

If a trusted user initiates deployment, Security Director Policy Enforcer will deliver the attacker's uploaded image to VMware NSX instead of a legitimate one.

This issue affects Security Director Policy Enforcer:  

  *  All versions before 23.1R1 Hotpatch v3.

This issue does not affect Junos Space Security Director Insights.

Weakness: CWE-306 (Missing Authentication for Critical Functionality)

## Which versions are affected by CVE-2025-11198?

It affects 1 product.


Products: Juniper Security Director Policy Enforcer.

## How do I fix CVE-2025-11198?

No fix has been published for CVE-2025-11198 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.

## Is CVE-2025-11198 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2025-11198 in the wild and no public exploit code.

## Fix prompt for AI coding agents

```text
Check this codebase for CVE-2025-11198 and fix it if it is affected.

What it is: CVE-2025-11198 is a high-severity missing authorization vulnerability in Juniper Networks Security Director Policy Enforcer, published on 9 Oct 2025. An attacker can exploit it over the internet without logging in, and only if a user opens a file or follows a link.
Exploitation: There is no known exploitation of CVE-2025-11198 in the wild and no public exploit code.

Affected product: Juniper Networks Security Director Policy Enforcer. No package-level version data is available, so check the vendor advisory linked from the reference page.

Task:
1. Search the dependency manifests and lockfiles (for example package.json, package-lock.json, requirements.txt, poetry.lock, uv.lock, pom.xml, build.gradle, go.mod, Cargo.lock, Gemfile.lock) and any Dockerfiles for the affected packages, including transitive dependencies.
2. If an affected version is in use, upgrade it to the fixed version for its release line with the project's package manager, so the lockfile is regenerated. Prefer the smallest upgrade that fixes it.
3. If there is no fix, or the upgrade would break the build, do not guess: explain the risk and the safest workaround instead.
4. Run the tests and summarise what changed and why.
5. If nothing in the project is affected, say so and change nothing.

Reference: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2025-11198/ (Markdown: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2025-11198/index.md)
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## Sources

- CVE record: https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2025-11198
- NVD: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-11198
- OSV: https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2025-11198

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From sbomify Insights: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2025-11198/
Summaries are generated and may contain mistakes; the official description above is the record.