CVE-2020-2037 PAN-OS: OS command injection vulnerability in the management web interface

Palo Alto Networks Security Advisories / CVE-2020-2037

CVE-2020-2037 PAN-OS: OS command injection vulnerability in the management web interface

Severity 7.2 · HIGH

Attack Vector NETWORK

Attack Complexity LOW

Privileges Required HIGH

User Interaction NONE

Scope UNCHANGED

Confidentiality Impact HIGH

Integrity Impact HIGH

Availability Impact HIGH

NVD JSON

Published 2020-09-09

Updated 2020-09-09

Reference PAN-128761

Discovered externally

Description

An OS Command Injection vulnerability in the PAN-OS management interface that allows authenticated administrators to execute arbitrary OS commands with root privileges.

This issue impacts:

PAN-OS 8.1 versions earlier than PAN-OS 8.1.16;

PAN-OS 9.0 versions earlier than PAN-OS 9.0.10;

PAN-OS 9.1 versions earlier than PAN-OS 9.1.3.

Product Status

Versions	Affected	Unaffected
PAN-OS 10.0	None	>= 10.0.0
PAN-OS 9.1	< 9.1.3	>= 9.1.3
PAN-OS 9.0	< 9.0.10	>= 9.0.10
PAN-OS 8.1	< 8.1.16	>= 8.1.16

Severity: HIGH

CVSSv3.1 Base Score: 7.2 (CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H)

Exploitation Status

Palo Alto Networks is not aware of any malicious attempts to exploit this vulnerability.

Weakness Type

CWE-78 OS Command Injection

Solution

This issue is fixed in PAN-OS 8.1.16, PAN-OS 9.0.10, PAN-OS 9.1.3, and all later PAN-OS versions.

Workarounds and Mitigations

This issue impacts the PAN-OS management web interface but you can mitigate the impact of this issue by following best practices for securing the PAN-OS management web interface. Please review the Best Practices for Securing Administrative Access in the PAN-OS technical documentation, available at https://docs.paloaltonetworks.com/best-practices.

Acknowledgments

Palo Alto Networks thanks Mikhail Klyuchnikov of Positive Technologies, and Nicholas Newsom of Palo Alto Networks for discovering and reporting this issue.

Timeline

2020-09-09 Initial publication