CVE-2017-7409 Cross-Site Scripting in PAN-OS

Palo Alto Networks Security Advisories / CVE-2017-7409

CVE-2017-7409 Cross-Site Scripting in PAN-OS

Severity 6.1 · MEDIUM

Attack Vector NETWORK

Attack Complexity LOW

Privileges Required NONE

User Interaction REQUIRED

Scope CHANGED

Confidentiality Impact LOW

Integrity Impact LOW

Availability Impact NONE

NVD JSON

Published 2017-04-20

Updated 2017-04-20

Reference PAN-70674 PAN-SA-2017-0011

Description

A vulnerability exists in the PAN-OS GlobalProtect external interface that could allow for a cross-site scripting (XSS) attack. PAN-OS does not properly validate specific request parameters. (Ref # PAN-70674 / CVE-2017-7409)

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

This issue affects PAN-OS 7.0.14 and earlier

Product Status

Versions	Affected	Unaffected
PAN-OS 7.0	<= 7.0.14	>= 7.0.15

Severity: MEDIUM

CVSSv3.1 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 7.0.15 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 Jarrod Phelps from Uber for reporting this issue to us.