Known exploited vulnerability

CVE-2023-36846

Juniper Junos OS SRX Series Missing Authentication for Critical Function Vulnerability

What is affected

Vendor Juniper
Product Junos OS
Weakness CWE-306

The vulnerability

Juniper Junos OS on SRX Series contains a missing authentication for critical function vulnerability that allows an unauthenticated, network-based attacker to cause limited impact to the file system integrity. With a specific request to user.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.

Required action

Apply mitigations per vendor instructions or discontinue use of the product if mitigations are unavailable.

US federal civilian agencies were required to act by 17 November 2023 under BOD 22-01. The deadline is a compliance date, not a measure of severity — it says nothing about how dangerous the flaw is to anyone else.

Where this comes from

Every field on this page is taken from the CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog, last synced 13 Nov 2026, 00:30. Nothing here is our own assessment. For the technical scoring, see the NVD record below.

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