FKIE_CVE-2020-1980

Vulnerability from fkie_nvd - Published: 2020-03-11 19:15 - Updated: 2026-06-17 03:02
Severity
7.8 (High) - CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
7.8 (High) - CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Summary
A shell command injection vulnerability in the PAN-OS CLI allows a local authenticated user to escape the restricted shell and escalate privileges. This issue affects only PAN-OS 8.1 versions earlier than PAN-OS 8.1.13. This issue does not affect PAN-OS 7.1, PAN-OS 9.0, or later PAN-OS versions. This issue is fixed in PAN-OS 8.1.13, and all later versions.
References
psirt@paloaltonetworks.comhttps://security.paloaltonetworks.com/CVE-2020-1980Vendor Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://security.paloaltonetworks.com/CVE-2020-1980Vendor Advisory
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
paloaltonetworks pan-os *
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