CVE-2026-33784

April 9, 2026, 10:16 p.m.

9.3
Critical

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.

Product(s) Impacted

Vendor Product Versions
Juniper
  • Virtual Lightweight Collector
  • <3.0.94

Weaknesses

Common security weaknesses mapped to this vulnerability.

CWE-1393
Use of Default Password
The product uses default passwords for potentially critical functionality.

*CPE(s)

Affected systems and software identified for this CVE.

Type Vendor Product Version Update Edition Language Software Edition Target Software Target Hardware Other Information
a juniper virtual_lightweight_collector <3.0.94 / / / / / / /

CVSS Score

9.3 / 10

CVSS Data - 4.0

  • Attack Vector: NETWORK
  • Attack Complexity: LOW
  • Attack Requirements: NONE
  • Privileges Required: NONE
  • User Interaction: NONE
  • Scope:
  • Confidentiality Impact: HIGH
  • Integrity Impact: HIGH
  • Availability Impact: HIGH
  • Exploit Maturity: NOT_DEFINED
  • 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/E:X/CR:X/IR:X/AR:X/MAV:X/MAC:X/MAT:X/MPR:X/MUI:X/MVC:X/MVI:X/MVA:X/MSC:X/MSI:X/MSA:X/S:X/AU:Y/R:U/V:X/RE:L/U:X

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Timeline

Published: April 9, 2026, 10:16 p.m.
Last Modified: April 9, 2026, 10:16 p.m.

Status : Received

CVE has been recently published to the CVE List and has been received by the NVD.

More info

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