A Permissive List of Allowed Input vulnerability in the CLI of Juniper Networks Support Insights (JSI) Virtual Lightweight Collector (vLWC) allows a local, high privileged attacker to escalate their privileges to root.

The CLI menu accepts input without carefully validating it, which allows for shell command injection. These shell commands are executed with root permissions and can be used to gain complete control of the system.

This issue affects all JSI vLWC versions before 3.0.94.

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Solution

The following software releases have been updated to resolve this specific issue: 3.0.94, and all subsequent releases.


Workaround

Use access lists or firewall filters to limit access to the CLI only from trusted hosts and administrators.

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Thu, 09 Apr 2026 21:45:00 +0000

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Description A Permissive List of Allowed Input vulnerability in the CLI of Juniper Networks Support Insights (JSI) Virtual Lightweight Collector (vLWC) allows a local, high privileged attacker to escalate their privileges to root. The CLI menu accepts input without carefully validating it, which allows for shell command injection. These shell commands are executed with root permissions and can be used to gain complete control of the system. This issue affects all JSI vLWC versions before 3.0.94.
Title JSI Virtual Lightweight Collector: Shell escape allows privilege escalation to root
Weaknesses CWE-183
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Metrics cvssV3_1

{'score': 6.7, 'vector': 'CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H'}

cvssV4_0

{'score': 8.4, 'vector': 'CVSS:4.0/AV:L/AC:L/AT:N/PR:H/UI:N/VC:H/VI:H/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/R:U/RE:M'}


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cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: juniper

Published:

Updated: 2026-04-09T21:26:28.357Z

Reserved: 2026-01-05T17:32:48.711Z

Link: CVE-2026-21915

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cve-icon NVD

Status : Received

Published: 2026-04-09T22:16:24.747

Modified: 2026-04-09T22:16:24.747

Link: CVE-2026-21915

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