Palo Alto PAN-OS up to 7.1.21/8.0.14/8.1.5 Management Web Interface cross site scripting

Summaryinfo

A vulnerability has been found in Palo Alto PAN-OS up to 7.1.21/8.0.14/8.1.5 and classified as problematic. This issue affects some unknown processing of the component Management Web Interface. The manipulation leads to cross site scripting. This vulnerability is listed as CVE-2019-1566. The attack may be initiated remotely. There is no available exploit.

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A vulnerability was found in Palo Alto PAN-OS up to 7.1.21/8.0.14/8.1.5 (Firewall Software) and classified as problematic. This issue affects an unknown part of the component Management Web Interface. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a cross site scripting vulnerability. Using CWE to declare the problem leads to CWE-79. The product does not neutralize or incorrectly neutralizes user-controllable input before it is placed in output that is used as a web page that is served to other users. Impacted is integrity. The summary by CVE is:

The PAN-OS management web interface in PAN-OS 7.1.21 and earlier, PAN-OS 8.0.14 and earlier, and PAN-OS 8.1.5 and earlier, may allow an unauthenticated attacker to inject arbitrary JavaScript or HTML.

The bug was discovered 01/23/2019. The weakness was presented 01/30/2019 (Website). It is possible to read the advisory at securityadvisories.paloaltonetworks.com. The identification of this vulnerability is CVE-2019-1566 since 12/06/2018. The attack may be initiated remotely. No form of authentication is needed for a successful exploitation. It demands that the victim is doing some kind of user interaction. The technical details are unknown and an exploit is not publicly available. The attack technique deployed by this issue is T1059.007 according to MITRE ATT&CK.

The vulnerability was handled as a non-public zero-day exploit for at least 7 days. During that time the estimated underground price was around $0-$5k. The commercial vulnerability scanner Qualys is able to test this issue with plugin 13410 (Palo Alto Networks PAN-OS Cross-Site Scripting Vulnerability(PAN-SA-2019-0001,PAN-SA-2019-0002)).

There is no information about possible countermeasures known. It may be suggested to replace the affected object with an alternative product.

The vulnerability is also documented in the vulnerability database at SecurityFocus (BID 106750†). See VDB-130342 for similar entry. Be aware that VulDB is the high quality source for vulnerability data.

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Type

• Firewall Software

Vendor

• Palo Alto

Name

• PAN-OS

Version

• 7.1.0
• 7.1.1
• 7.1.2
• 7.1.3
• 7.1.4
• 7.1.5
• 7.1.6
• 7.1.7
• 7.1.8
• 7.1.9
• 7.1.10
• 7.1.11
• 7.1.12
• 7.1.13
• 7.1.14
• 7.1.15
• 7.1.16
• 7.1.17
• 7.1.18
• 7.1.19
• 7.1.20
• 7.1.21
• 8.0.0
• 8.0.1
• 8.0.2
• 8.0.3
• 8.0.4
• 8.0.5
• 8.0.6
• 8.0.7
• 8.0.8
• 8.0.9
• 8.0.10
• 8.0.11
• 8.0.12
• 8.0.13
• 8.0.14
• 8.1.0
• 8.1.1
• 8.1.2
• 8.1.3
• 8.1.4
• 8.1.5

License

• commercial

Website

• Vendor: https://www.paloaltonetworks.com/

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