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CVE-2020-2029 (GCVE-0-2020-2029)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2020-06-10 17:28 – Updated: 2024-09-16 16:52
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Title
PAN-OS: OS command injection vulnerability in management interface certificate generator
Summary
An OS Command Injection vulnerability in the PAN-OS web management interface allows authenticated administrators to execute arbitrary OS commands with root privileges by sending a malicious request to generate new certificates for use in the PAN-OS configuration. This issue affects: All versions of PAN-OS 8.0; PAN-OS 7.1 versions earlier than PAN-OS 7.1.26; PAN-OS 8.1 versions earlier than PAN-OS 8.1.13.
Severity
7.2 (High)
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CWE
  • CWE-78 - OS Command Injection
Assigner
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version CPE status
Palo Alto Networks PAN-OS Affected: 8.0.*
Affected: 7.1 , < 7.1.26 (custom)
Affected: 8.1 , < 8.1.13 (custom)
Unaffected: 9.0.0 , < 9.0* (custom)
Unaffected: 9.1.0 , < 9.1* (custom)
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Date Public
2020-06-10 00:00
Credits
Palo Alto Networks thanks Przemysław Kowalski of STM Solutions for discovering and reporting this issue.
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