# cveboard — Historical CVE brief

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Fix information unknown; no fixed version is derived here. Missing information does not prove that no fix exists.
Exploitation unknown; this catalogue does not assess exploitation.

## Source facts (JSON-quoted data)
CNA source text (English)
id: "CVE-2016-4924"
idYear: 2016
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2017-10-13T17:00:00.000Z"
updatedAt: "2024-09-16T22:25:25.053Z"
importedAt: "2026-10-24T01:55:48.151Z"
snapshot: {"id":"cve_2026-10-24_midnight_baseline","at":"2026-10-24T00:00:00.000Z","source":"https://github.com/CVEProject/cvelistV5/releases/tag/cve_2026-10-24_0100Z"}
url: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2016-4924"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2016-4924.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2016-4924"
title: "vMX: Information leak vulnerability"
summary: "An incorrect permissions vulnerability in Juniper Networks Junos OS on vMX may allow local unprivileged users on a host system read access to vMX or vPFE images and obtain sensitive information contained in them such as private cryptographic keys. This issue was found during internal product security testing. Juniper SIRT is not aware of any malicious exploitation of this vulnerability. No other Juniper Networks products or platforms are affected by this issue. Affected releases are Juniper Networks Junos OS 15.1 prior to 15.1F5; 14.1 prior to 14.1R8"
affected: [{"versions":[{"version":"15.1 prior to 15.1F5","status":"affected"},{"version":"14.1 prior to 14.1R8","status":"affected"}],"vendor":"Juniper Networks","product":"Junos OS","platforms":["vMX"]}]

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