CVE-2019-0074
Junos OS: NFX150 Series, QFX10K Series, EX9200 Series, MX Series, PTX Series: Path traversal vulnerability in NFX150 and NG-RE leads to information disclosure.
- 5.5MediumCVSS base score
- 0.36%Exploitation in 30 daysEPSS · top 70% of all CVEs
- NoKnown exploitednot in CISA's KEV catalog
- NonePublic exploitsnone known yet
Description
A path traversal vulnerability in NFX150 Series and QFX10K Series, EX9200 Series, MX Series and PTX Series devices with Next-Generation Routing Engine (NG-RE) allows a local authenticated user to read sensitive system files. This issue only affects NFX150 Series and QFX10K Series, EX9200 Series, MX Series and PTX Series with Next-Generation Routing Engine (NG-RE) which uses vmhost. This issue affects Juniper Networks Junos OS on NFX150 Series and QFX10K, EX9200 Series, MX Series and PTX Series with NG-RE and vmhost: 15.1F versions prior to 15.1F6-S12 16.1 versions starting from 16.1R6 and later releases, including the Service Releases, prior to 16.1R6-S6, 16.1R7-S3; 17.1 versions prior to 17.1R3; 17.2 versions starting from 17.2R1-S3, 17.2R3 and later releases, including the Service Releases, prior to 17.2R3-S1; 17.3 versions starting from 17.3R1-S1, 17.3R2 and later releases, including the Service Releases, prior to 17.3R3-S3; 17.4 versions starting from 17.4R1 and later releases, including the Service Releases, prior to 17.4R1-S6, 17.4R2-S2, 17.4R3; 18.1 versions prior to 18.1R2-S4, 18.1R3-S3; 18.2 versions prior to 18.2R2; 18.2X75 versions prior to 18.2X75-D40; 18.3 versions prior to 18.3R1-S2, 18.3R2; 18.4 versions prior to 18.4R1-S1, 18.4R2. This issue does not affect: Juniper Networks Junos OS 15.1 and 16.2.
Timeline
ID reserved
By juniper
- 12 months later
· 12 months later
Published
- 5 years later
· 5 years later
Record updated
Changes after publication (a new score, a public exploit, EPSS crossing 1, 10 or 50 %, leaving KEV) are kept since November 2026; earlier ones are not known.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| juniperCNA (assigner) | 3.1 | Medium5.5 | CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N |
| NVDNVD · Modified | 3.1 | Medium5.5 | CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 0.36% · top 70% of all CVEs (11 Nov 2026)
The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: Medium 5.5.
Affected products
- unaffected 15.1
- unaffected 16.2 16.2
- affected 15.1F – < 15.1F6-S12
- affected 16.1R6 – < 16.1*
- affected 17.1 – < 17.1R3
- affected 17.2R1-S3, 17.2R3 – < 17.2*
- affected 17.3R1-S1, 17.3R2 – < 17.3*
- affected 17.4R1 – < 17.4*
- affected 18.1 – < 18.1R2-S4, 18.1R3-S3
- affected 18.2 – < 18.2R2
- affected 18.2X75 – < 18.2X75-D40
- affected 18.3 – < 18.3R1-S2, 18.3R2
- affected 18.4 – < 18.4R1-S1, 18.4R2
What to do
Solution: The following software releases have been updated to resolve these specific issues: 15.1F6-S12, 16.1R6-S6, 16.1R7-S3, 17.1R3, 17.2R3-S1, 17.3R3-S3, 17.4R1-S6, 17.4R2-S2, 17.4R3, 18.1R2-S4, 18.1R3-S3, 18.2R2, 18.2R3, 18.2X75-D40, 18.3R1-S2, 18.3R2, 18.4R1-S1, 18.4R2, 19.1R1, and all subsequent releases.
Workaround: There are no known workarounds for this issue.
Exploitation: Juniper SIRT is not aware of any malicious exploitation of this vulnerability.
References
References1
- https://kb.juniper.net/JSA10975 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
Sources
The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.
- CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
- CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
- NVD (opens in a new tab)
- FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
- EUVD EUVD-2019-0881 (opens in a new tab)
- OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
- GitHub Advisories (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
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