CVE-2016-9149 XPath Injection

Palo Alto Networks Security Advisories / CVE-2016-9149

CVE-2016-9149 XPath Injection

Severity 6.5 · MEDIUM

Attack Vector NETWORK

Attack Complexity LOW

Privileges Required LOW

User Interaction NONE

Scope UNCHANGED

Confidentiality Impact NONE

Integrity Impact HIGH

Availability Impact NONE

NVD JSON

Published 2016-11-17

Updated 2016-11-17

Reference PAN-55237 and PAN-92073 PAN-SA-2016-0037

Description

The Addresses Object parsing function does not properly escape single quotes. (Ref # PAN-55237/92073/CVE-2016-9149)

This post-authentication vulnerability could allow XPath manipulation.

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: 6.5 (CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N)

Weakness Type

CWE-19

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

N/A

Acknowledgments

Palo Alto Networks would like to thank Khalilov Mukhammad from HelpAG for reporting this issue to us.