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CRITICAL

Junos OS: QFX5200 and QFX10002: Unintended ONIE partition was shipped with certain Junos OS .bin and .iso images

Published Jul 11, 2018

Description

QFX5200 and QFX10002 devices that have been shipped with Junos OS 15.1X53-D21, 15.1X53-D30, 15.1X53-D31, 15.1X53-D32, 15.1X53-D33 and 15.1X53-D60 or have been upgraded to these releases using the .bin or .iso images may contain an unintended additional Open Network Install Environment (ONIE) partition. This additional partition allows the superuser to reboot to the ONIE partition which will wipe out the content of the Junos partition and its configuration. Once rebooted, the ONIE partition will not have root password configured, thus any user can access the console or SSH, using an IP address acquired from DHCP, as root without password. Once the device has been shipped or upgraded with the ONIE partition installed, the issue will persist. Simply upgrading to higher release via the CLI will not resolve the issue. No other Juniper Networks products or platforms are affected by this issue.

Affected products

Remediation

Vendor solution

In order to resolve this issue (remove the ONIE partition from the device), customer needs to reimage the device using the USB or PXE image from the Juniper download page. The affected Junos image files have been removed from the Juniper download page.

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Weaknesses (0)

No CWE recorded.

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Sources
CVE.org / MITRE
Status PUBLISHED
Assigner juniper
Published Jul 11, 2018
Updated Sep 16, 2024
Reserved Nov 16, 2017
NVD
Status Modified
Modified Jun 17, 2026
Red Hat
Severity n/a
Public date n/a