CVE-2016-1271

high

Published 2016-04-15 · Modified 2026-05-06

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CVSS v3

7.8

CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

CVSS v4 NEW

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not yet in upstream

VIR risk

7.8

Description

Juniper Junos OS before 12.1X46-D45, 12.1X47 before 12.1X47-D30, 12.3 before 12.3R11, 12.3X48 before 12.3X48-D25, 13.2 before 13.2R8, 13.3 before 13.3R7, 14.1 before 14.1R6, 14.2 before 14.2R4, 15.1 before 15.1R1 or 15.1F2, and 15.1X49 before 15.1X49-D15 allow local users to gain privileges via crafted combinations of CLI commands and arguments, a different vulnerability than CVE-2015-3003, CVE-2014-3816, and CVE-2014-0615.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood

75%

Patch ETA

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Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

No mitigations published for this CVE yet.

The vendor-content worker queues fetches as references arrive (check back in a few minutes). Or — if you've already worked around this in production — publish your fix to the community-verified tier.

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References

CWEs

CWE-20

Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.

Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.