CVE-2018-14634 Privilege Escalation in PAN-OS

Palo Alto Networks Security Advisories / CVE-2018-14634

CVE-2018-14634 Privilege Escalation in PAN-OS

Severity 7.8 · HIGH

Attack Vector LOCAL

Scope UNCHANGED

Attack Complexity LOW

Confidentiality Impact HIGH

Privileges Required LOW

Integrity Impact HIGH

User Interaction NONE

Availability Impact HIGH

CVE JSON

Published 2019-03-20

Updated 2019-03-20

Reference PAN-105966, PAN-SA-2019-0006

Discovered internally

Description

Palo Alto Networks is aware of an integer overflow vulnerability in the Linux kernel's create_elf_tables() function. (Ref # PAN-105966, CVE-2018-14634)

Successful exploitation of this issue may allow an unprivileged local user to escalate their privileges on the system.

To successfully exploit this vulnerability, an attacker would need local user account to access CLI, as well as, an unrelated vulnerability allowing the local user to execute arbitrary code in a chained attack. This combination would result in the execution of malicious code and achieving complete control of the affected system.

This issue does not affect 32-bit systems as they do not have a large enough address space to exploit this flaw.

This issue affects This only affects 64bit systems with more than 32 GB of available memory.

The affected platform and versions are PAN-OS 7.1.22 and earlier running on M-500 and WF-500; PAN-OS 8.0.15 and earlier running on PA-5220, PA-5250, PA-5260, M-500 and WF-500; and PAN-OS 8.1.6 and earlier running on PA-5220, PA-5250, PA-5260, PA-5280, M-500, M-600 and WF-500. PAN-OS 9.0 is NOT affected.

Product Status

Versions	Affected	Unaffected
PAN-OS 8.1	<= 8.1.6	>= 8.1.7
PAN-OS 8.0	<= 8.0.15	>= 8.0.16
PAN-OS 7.1	<= 7.1.22	>= 7.1.23

Severity: HIGH

CVSSv3.1 Base Score: 7.8 (CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H)

Weakness Type

CWE-190 Integer Overflow or Wraparound

Solution

PAN-OS 7.1.23 and later, PAN-OS 8.0.16 and later, and PAN-OS 8.1.7 and later.