# 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-2024-39521"
idYear: 2024
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2024-07-11T15:57:44.418Z"
updatedAt: "2024-08-02T04:26:15.809Z"
importedAt: "2026-10-24T01:57:16.009Z"
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-2024-39521"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2024-39521.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2024-39521"
title: "Junos OS Evolved: CLI parameter processing issue allows privilege escalation"
summary: "An Improper Neutralization of Special Elements vulnerability in Juniper Networks Junos OS Evolved commands allows a local, authenticated attacker with low privileges to escalate their privileges to 'root' leading to a full compromise of the system.\n\nThe Junos OS Evolved CLI doesn't properly handle command options in some cases, allowing users which execute specific CLI commands with a crafted set of parameters to escalate their privileges to root on shell level.\n\n\nThis issue affects Junos OS Evolved: \n\n\n\n  *  21.1-EVO versions 21.1R1-EVO and later before 21.2R3-S8-EVO, \n  *  21.4-EVO versions before 21.4R3-S7-EVO,\n  *  22.1-EVO versions before 22.1R3-S6-EVO, \n  *  22.2-EVO versions before 22.2R3-EVO,\n  *  22.3-EVO versions before 22.3R2-EVO."
affected: [{"versions":[{"version":"21.1-EVO","status":"affected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"21.2R3-S8-EVO"},{"version":"21.4-EVO","status":"affected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"21.4R3-S7-EVO"},{"version":"22.1-EVO","status":"affected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"22.1R3-S6-EVO"},{"version":"22.2-EVO","status":"affected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"22.2R3-EVO"},{"version":"22.3-EVO","status":"affected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"22.3R2-EVO"}],"vendor":"Juniper Networks","product":"Junos OS Evolved","defaultStatus":"unaffected"}]

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