CVE-2017-12416 Cross-Site Scripting in PAN-OS

Palo Alto Networks Security Advisories / CVE-2017-12416

CVE-2017-12416 Cross-Site Scripting in PAN-OS

Severity 6.1 · MEDIUM

Attack Vector NETWORK

Scope CHANGED

Attack Complexity LOW

Confidentiality Impact LOW

Privileges Required NONE

Integrity Impact LOW

User Interaction REQUIRED

Availability Impact NONE

CVE JSON

Published 2017-08-30

Updated 2017-08-30

Reference PAN-76003, PAN-SA-2017-0023

Description

A vulnerability exists in PAN-OS’s GlobalProtect internal and external gateway interface. This issue could allow for a cross-site scripting (XSS) attack. PAN-OS does not properly validate specific request parameters. (Ref # PAN-76003 / CVE-2017-12416)

Successful exploitation of this issue may allow an attacker to inject arbitrary Java script or HTML.

This issue affects PAN-OS 6.1.17 and earlier, PAN-OS 7.0.16 and earlier, PAN-OS 7.1.11 and earlier, PAN-OS 8.0.2 and earlier

Product Status

Versions	Affected	Unaffected
PAN-OS 8.0	<= 8.0.2	>= 8.0.3
PAN-OS 7.1	<= 7.1.11	>= 7.1.12
PAN-OS 7.0	<= 7.0.16	>= 7.0.17
PAN-OS 6.1	<= 6.1.17	>= 6.1.18

Severity: MEDIUM

CVSSv3.0 Base Score: 6.1 (CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N)

Weakness Type

CWE-79 Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation ('Cross-site Scripting')

Solution

PAN-OS 6.1.18 and later, PAN-OS 7.0.17 and later, PAN-OS 7.1.12 and later, PAN-OS 8.0.3 and later

Workarounds and Mitigations

Customers that have not configured GlobalProtect are not affected by this issue.

Acknowledgments

Palo Alto Networks would like to thank Sonal Shrivastava of PayPal for reporting this issue to us.