CVE-2014-9708 Web interface denial of service

Palo Alto Networks Security Advisories / CVE-2014-9708

CVE-2014-9708 Web interface denial of service

Severity 5.3 · MEDIUM

Attack Vector NETWORK

Scope UNCHANGED

Attack Complexity LOW

Confidentiality Impact NONE

Privileges Required NONE

Integrity Impact NONE

User Interaction NONE

Availability Impact LOW

CVE JSON

Published 2016-10-11

Updated 2016-10-11

Reference PAN-64917, 105311, PAN-SA-2016-0027

Description

Palo Alto Networks web management server is vulnerable to a denial-of-service attack. (Ref # PAN-64917/105311) (CVE-2014-9708)

This pre-authenticated denial-of-service attack could disrupt the web management interface.

This issue affects PAN-OS 5.0.19 and earlier; PAN-OS 5.1.12 and earlier; PAN-OS 6.0.14 and earlier; PAN-OS 6.1.14 and earlier; PAN-OS 7.0.10 and earlier; PAN-OS 7.1.5 and earlier

Product Status

Versions	Affected	Unaffected
PAN-OS 7.1	<= 7.1.5	>= 7.1.6
PAN-OS 7.0	<= 7.0.10	>= 7.0.11
PAN-OS 6.1	<= 6.1.14	>= 6.1.15
PAN-OS 6.0	<= 6.0.14	>= 6.0.15
PAN-OS 5.1	<= 5.1.12	>= 5.1.13
PAN-OS 5.0	<= 5.0.19	>= 5.0.20

Severity: MEDIUM

CVSSv3.1 Base Score: 5.3 (CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L)

Solution

PAN-OS 5.0.20 and later; PAN-OS 5.1.13 and later; PAN-OS 6.0.15 and later; PAN-OS 6.1.15 and later; PAN-OS 7.0.11 and later; PAN-OS 7.1.6 and later

Workarounds and Mitigations

Palo Alto Networks recommends to implement best practice by allowing web interface access only to a dedicated management network. Additionally, restrict the set of IP addresses to a subset of authorized sources that you allow to interact with the management network.