CVE-2023-28971

An Improper Restriction of Communication Channel to Intended Endpoints vulnerability in the timescaledb feature of Juniper Networks Paragon Active Assurance (PAA) (Formerly Netrounds) allows an attacker to bypass existing firewall rules and limitations used to restrict internal communcations. The Test Agents (TA) Appliance connects to the Control Center (CC) using OpenVPN. TA's are assigned an internal IP address in the 100.70.0.0/16 range. Firewall rules exists to limit communication from TA's to the CC to specific services only. OpenVPN is configured to not allow direct communication between Test Agents in the OpenVPN application itself, and routing is normally not enabled on the server running the CC application. The timescaledb feature is installed as an optional package on the Control Center. When the timescaledb container is started, this causes side-effects by bypassing the existing firewall rules and limitations for Test Agent communications. Note: This issue only affects customers hosting their own on-prem Control Center. The Paragon Active Assurance Software as a Service (SaaS) is not affected by this vulnerability since the timescaledb service is not enabled. This issue affects all on-prem versions of Juniper Networks Paragon Active Assurance prior to 4.1.2.
References
Link Resource
https://supportportal.juniper.net/JSA70595 Mitigation Vendor Advisory
Configurations

Configuration 1 (hide)

cpe:2.3:a:juniper:paragon_active_assurance:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

History

27 Apr 2023, 19:54

Type Values Removed Values Added
First Time Juniper
Juniper paragon Active Assurance
CPE cpe:2.3:a:juniper:paragon_active_assurance:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
CWE CWE-923 NVD-CWE-Other
References (CONFIRM) https://supportportal.juniper.net/JSA70595 - (CONFIRM) https://supportportal.juniper.net/JSA70595 - Mitigation, Vendor Advisory

17 Apr 2023, 22:15

Type Values Removed Values Added
New CVE

Information

Published : 2023-04-17 22:15

Updated : 2023-12-10 15:01


NVD link : CVE-2023-28971

Mitre link : CVE-2023-28971

CVE.ORG link : CVE-2023-28971


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Products Affected

juniper

  • paragon_active_assurance
CWE
NVD-CWE-Other CWE-923

Improper Restriction of Communication Channel to Intended Endpoints