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Key Exchange without Entity Authentication

CVE-2025-13914

Severity High
Score 7/10

Summary

A Key Exchange without Entity Authentication vulnerability in the SSH implementation of Juniper Networks Apstra allows a unauthenticated, MITM attacker to impersonate managed devices. Due to insufficient SSH host key validation an attacker can perform a machine-in-the-middle attack on the SSH connections from Apstra to managed devices, enabling an attacker to impersonate a managed device and capture user credentials. This issue affects all versions of Apstra before 6.1.1.

  • HIGH
  • NETWORK
  • HIGH
  • CHANGED
  • NONE
  • NONE
  • HIGH
  • NONE

CWE-322 - Key Exchange without Entity Authentication

The software performs a key exchange with an actor without verifying the identity of that actor.

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Advisory Timeline

  • Published