Palo Alto PAN-OS up to 7.1.5 Management Web Interface memory corruption

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A vulnerability was found in Palo Alto PAN-OS up to 7.1.5 (Firewall Software) and classified as critical. This issue affects an unknown part of the component Management Web Interface. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a memory corruption vulnerability. Using CWE to declare the problem leads to CWE-119. The product performs operations on a memory buffer, but it can read from or write to a memory location that is outside of the intended boundary of the buffer. Impacted is confidentiality, integrity, and availability. The summary by CVE is:

Buffer overflow in the management web interface in Palo Alto Networks PAN-OS before 5.0.20, 5.1.x before 5.1.13, 6.0.x before 6.0.15, 6.1.x before 6.1.15, 7.0.x before 7.0.11, and 7.1.x before 7.1.6 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via unspecified vectors.

The weakness was disclosed 11/19/2016 (Website). The advisory is shared at securityadvisories.paloaltonetworks.com. The identification of this vulnerability is CVE-2016-9150. The exploitation is known to be easy. The attack may be initiated remotely. No form of authentication is needed for a successful exploitation. Technical details are unknown but a public exploit is available.

The exploit is available at exploit-db.com. It is declared as proof-of-concept. The vulnerability scanner Nessus provides a plugin with the ID 95478 (Palo Alto Networks PAN-OS 5.0.x < 5.0.20 / 5.1.x < 5.1.13 / 6.0.x < 6.0.15 / 6.1.x < 6.1.15 / 7.0.x < 7.0.11 / 7.1.x < 7.1.6 Multiple Vulnerabilities (PAN-SA-2016-0033 / PAN-SA-2016-0034 / PAN-SA-2016-0035)), which helps to determine the existence of the flaw in a target environment. It is assigned to the family Palo Alto Local Security Checks. The commercial vulnerability scanner Qualys is able to test this issue with plugin 11736 (Palo Alto Networks PAN-OS Multiple Vulnerabilities (PAN-SA-2016-0034 and PAN-SA-2016-0035)).

Upgrading to version 5.0.20, 5.1.13, 6.0.15, 6.1.15, 7.0.11 or 7.1.6 eliminates this vulnerability.

The vulnerability is also documented in the databases at Tenable (95478) and Exploit-DB (40790). The entries 93676 and 93678 are pretty similar.

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Class: Memory corruption
CWE: CWE-119
ATT&CK: Unknown

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Nessus ID: 95478
Nessus Name: Palo Alto Networks PAN-OS 5.0.x < 5.0.20 / 5.1.x < 5.1.13 / 6.0.x < 6.0.15 / 6.1.x < 6.1.15 / 7.0.x < 7.0.11 / 7.1.x < 7.1.6 Multiple Vulnerabilities (PAN-SA-2016-0033 / PAN-SA-2016-0034 / PAN-SA-2016-0035)
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OpenVAS ID: 902985
OpenVAS Name: Palo Alto PAN-OS Buffer Overflow in the Management Web Interface (PAN-SA-2016-0035)
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Recommended: Upgrade
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Upgrade: PAN-OS 5.0.20/5.1.13/6.0.15/6.1.15/7.0.11/7.1.6

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11/03/2016 🔍
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Sourcesinfo

Vendor: paloaltonetworks.com

Advisory: securityadvisories.paloaltonetworks.com
Status: Not defined

CVE: CVE-2016-9150 (🔍)
SecurityTracker: 1037382
SecurityFocus: 94399

scip Labs: https://www.scip.ch/en/?labs.20161013
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Created: 11/19/2016 17:30
Updated: 10/04/2022 09:44
Changes: 11/19/2016 17:30 (44), 03/16/2017 14:47 (20), 10/04/2022 09:37 (3), 10/04/2022 09:42 (11), 10/04/2022 09:44 (1)
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