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    "id": "CVE-2024-2973",
    "sourceURL": "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2024-2973",
    "idYear": 2024,
    "status": "PUBLISHED",
    "publishedAt": "2024-06-27T20:17:50.239Z",
    "updatedAt": "2024-08-01T19:32:42.563Z",
    "importedAt": "2026-10-24T01:57:11.582Z",
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      "id": "cve_2026-10-24_midnight_baseline",
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      "source": "https://github.com/CVEProject/cvelistV5/releases/tag/cve_2026-10-24_0100Z"
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      "title": "Session Smart Router(SSR): On redundant router deployments API authentication can be bypassed",
      "summary": "An Authentication Bypass Using an Alternate Path or Channel vulnerability in Juniper Networks Session Smart Router or conductor running with a redundant peer allows a network based attacker to bypass authentication and take full control of the device.\nOnly routers or conductors that are running in high-availability redundant configurations are affected by this vulnerability.\n\n\n\n\nNo other Juniper Networks products or platforms are affected by this issue.\n\n\n\n\n\nThis issue affects:\n\nSession Smart Router: \n\n\n\n  *  All versions before 5.6.15, \n  *  from 6.0 before 6.1.9-lts, \n  *  from 6.2 before 6.2.5-sts.\n\n\n\nSession Smart Conductor: \n\n\n\n  *  All versions before 5.6.15, \n  *  from 6.0 before 6.1.9-lts, \n  *  from 6.2 before 6.2.5-sts. \n\n\n\nWAN Assurance Router: \n\n\n\n  *  6.0 versions before 6.1.9-lts, \n  *  6.2 versions before 6.2.5-sts.",
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