MEDIUM SEVERITY

CVE-2013-6013

Junos vulnerability

CVSS
6.8
EPSS
4.0%
EPSS pct
89th
Exploited
No known
Buffer overflow in the flow daemon (flowd) in Juniper Junos 10.4 before 10.4S14, 11.4 before 11.4R7-S2, 12.1.X44 before 12.1X44-D15, 12.1X45 before 12.1X45-D10 on SRX devices, when using telnet pass-through authentication on the firewall, might allow remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via a crafted telnet message.
Affected vendor
Juniper
Affected product
Junos
CVSS vector
AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
Weakness type (CWE)
  • CWE-119 — Improper Restriction of Operations within Memory Bounds
Published
2013-10-17

Risk analysis

Based on its CVSS vector, this vulnerability is exploitable over the network, medium attack complexity, requiring no authentication. Successful exploitation leads to partial impact to confidentiality, partial impact to integrity, partial impact to availability.

Its EPSS score of 4.0% reflects a lower probability of exploitation activity in the wild over the next 30 days, placing it above 89% of all scored CVEs.

Check your external exposure to CVE-2013-6013

  • Confirm whether Juniper Junos is running on any internet-facing host or subdomain.
  • Match discovered service fingerprints against the version affected by CVE-2013-6013.
  • Prioritise remediation if the asset is public, business-critical, or near authentication/payment flows.

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