CVE-2016-4924: Juniper Junos

Medium severity, CVSS 5.5. EPSS: 0.3% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

An incorrect permissions vulnerability in Juniper Networks Junos OS on vMX may allow local unprivileged users on a host system read access to vMX or vPFE images and obtain sensitive information contained in them such as private cryptographic keys. This issue was found during internal product security testing. Juniper SIRT is not aware of any malicious exploitation of this vulnerability. No other Juniper Networks products or platforms are affected by this issue. Affected releases are Juniper Networks Junos OS 15.1 prior to 15.1F5; 14.1 prior to 14.1R8

Affected products

• Juniper Junos: version 15.1 only; version 14.1 only

Published 2017-10-13. Last modified 2026-06-17.