Attackers Target Juniper SRX and EX Flaws

On Aug. 17, Juniper released a security advisory to address two vulnerabilities each in its SRX Series firewalls and EX Series switches. Not an unusual occurrence in and of itself, but two things stood out about the advisory: it was an out-of-cycle release, and none of the vulnerabilities was rated a critical, or even serious, risk.

But, as it turns out, chaining the vulnerabilities together in specific ways can lead to remote code execution on vulnerable devices. And attackers have …

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