CVE-2020-1616: Juniper Advanced Threat Protection

Medium severity, CVSS 5.3. EPSS: 1.4% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Due to insufficient server-side login attempt limit enforcement, a vulnerability in the SSH login service of Juniper Networks Juniper Advanced Threat Prevention (JATP) Series and Virtual JATP (vJATP) devices allows an unauthenticated, remote attacker to perform multiple login attempts in excess of the configured login attempt limit. Successful exploitation will allow the attacker to perform brute-force password attacks on the SSH service. This issue affects: Juniper Networks JATP and vJATP versions prior to 5.0.6.0.

Affected products

• Juniper Advanced Threat Protection: before 5.0.6.0 (fixed in 5.0.6.0)
• Juniper Virtual Advanced Threat Protection: before 5.0.6.0 (fixed in 5.0.6.0)

Published 2020-04-08. Last modified 2026-06-17.