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CVE-2020-1614

CRITICAL

A Use of Hard-coded Credentials vulnerability exists in the NFX250 Series for the vSRX Virtual Network Function (VNF) instance, which allows an attacker to take control of the vSRX VNF instance if they have the ability to access an administrative service (e.g. SSH) on the VNF, either locally, or through the network. This issue only affects the NFX250 Series vSRX VNF. No other products or platforms are affected. This issue is only applicable to environments where the vSRX VNF root password has not been configured. This issue affects the Juniper Networks NFX250 Network Services Platform vSRX VNF instance on versions prior to 19.2R1.

Published: Apr 8, 2020 Modified: Jun 17, 2026
CWE-798 CWE-798

CVSS Metrics

CVSSv3
Attack Vector: NETWORK Attack Complexity: LOW Privileges Required: NONE User Interaction: NONE Scope: CHANGED Confidentiality Impact: HIGH Integrity Impact: HIGH Availability Impact: HIGH

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H

Affected Products (5)

Vendor Product Version
juniper junos * < 19.2
juniper junos 19.2
juniper junos 19.2
juniper junos 19.2
juniper junos 19.2

GitHub Security Advisory GHSA-mrrq-pc5g-fmm4

A Use of Hard-coded Credentials vulnerability exists in the NFX250 Series for the vSRX Virtual...

Risk Scores

CVSS Score 10.0 / 10
EPSS Score 1.36%

Top 30% most likely to be exploited

Threat Score 40.4 / 100

Data Sources

NVD EPSS GitHub