Juniper Networks flings out emergency patches for perfect 10 router vuln

A critical vulnerability affecting Juniper Networks routers forced the vendor to issue emergency patches last week, and users are advised to apply them as soon as possible. The authentication bypass bug, tracked as CVE-2024-2973, scored a perfect 10 rating on both the CVSS 3.1 and CVSS 4 systems, illustrating the seriousness …

[Korev]

This Juniper vulnerability sounds berry serious...

[Paul Crawford]

Your network might get juiced...

[David 132]

A sign that your network is vulnerable is that data transmissions are sloe.

[JamesTGrant]

Juniper?

No, I hardly even know her.

[Anonymous Coward]

History Lesson??

Inserted deliberately.....years ago......

Found recently by innocent third party.....

Patched immediately!!!

More deliberate insertions on the way......

Sigh!!!

Quote (William Burroughs): "The paranoid is a person who knows a little of what is going on."

[pc-fluesterer.info]

Re: History Lesson??

Full ACK.

The bottom line is: proprietary products from China or the US CANNOT BE TRUSTED.

All of them might have gotten a NSL requiring them to build in backdoors for 3-letter agencies.

If you want security get a FOSS solution.