A Use of Default Password vulnerability in the Juniper Networks

Support Insights (JSI)

Virtual Lightweight Collector (vLWC) allows an unauthenticated, network-based attacker to take full control of the device.

vLWC software images ship with an initial password for a high privileged account. A change of this password is not enforced during the provisioning of the software, which can make full access to the system by unauthorized actors possible.This issue affects all versions of vLWC 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

The password can be changed in the setup menu of the device, which is described at  Configure Network Settings through JSI Shell | Juniper Support Insights | Juniper Networks https://www.juniper.net/documentation/us/en/software/jsi/vlwc-deploy/topics/topic-map/configure-settings-jsi-shell.html

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Fri, 10 Apr 2026 09:00:00 +0000

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First Time appeared Juniper Networks
Juniper Networks jsi Lwc
Vendors & Products Juniper Networks
Juniper Networks jsi Lwc

Thu, 09 Apr 2026 22:00:00 +0000

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Description A Use of Default Password vulnerability in the Juniper Networks Support Insights (JSI) Virtual Lightweight Collector (vLWC) allows an unauthenticated, network-based attacker to take full control of the device. vLWC software images ship with an initial password for a high privileged account. A change of this password is not enforced during the provisioning of the software, which can make full access to the system by unauthorized actors possible.This issue affects all versions of vLWC before 3.0.94.
Title JSI Virtual Lightweight Collector: Default password is not required to be changed which allows unauthorized high-privileged access
Weaknesses CWE-1393
References
Metrics cvssV3_1

{'score': 9.8, 'vector': 'CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H'}

cvssV4_0

{'score': 9.3, 'vector': 'CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:H/VI:H/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:L/AU:Y/R:U/RE:L'}


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cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: juniper

Published:

Updated: 2026-04-09T21:36:37.519Z

Reserved: 2026-03-23T19:46:13.670Z

Link: CVE-2026-33784

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cve-icon NVD

Status : Received

Published: 2026-04-09T22:16:27.820

Modified: 2026-04-09T22:16:27.820

Link: CVE-2026-33784

cve-icon Redhat

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cve-icon OpenCVE Enrichment

Updated: 2026-04-10T09:27:50Z

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