Palo Alto GlobalProtect App up to 5.0.8/5.1.1 Diagnostic Log PanGPS.log Password debug log file

Summaryinfo

A vulnerability was found in Palo Alto GlobalProtect App up to 5.0.8/5.1.1. It has been declared as problematic. Affected by this vulnerability is an unknown functionality of the file PanGPS.log of the component Diagnostic Log Handler. Such manipulation leads to debug log file (Password). This vulnerability is referenced as CVE-2020-2004. The attack can only be performed from a local environment. No exploit is available. It is recommended to upgrade the affected component.

Detailsinfo

A vulnerability was found in Palo Alto GlobalProtect App up to 5.0.8/5.1.1 and classified as problematic. Affected by this issue is some unknown processing of the file PanGPS.log of the component Diagnostic Log Handler. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a debug log file vulnerability (Password). Using CWE to declare the problem leads to CWE-534. This entry has been deprecated because its abstraction was too low-level. See CWE-532. Impacted is confidentiality. CVE summarizes:

Under certain circumstances a user's password may be logged in cleartext in the PanGPS.log diagnostic file when logs are collected for troubleshooting on GlobalProtect app (also known as GlobalProtect Agent) for MacOS and Windows. For this issue to occur all of these conditions must be true: (1) 'Save User Credential' option should be set to 'Yes' in the GlobalProtect Portal's Agent configuration, (2) the GlobalProtect user manually selects a gateway, (3) and the logging level is set to 'Dump' while collecting troubleshooting logs. This issue does not affect GlobalProtect app on other platforms (for example iOS/Android/Linux). This issue affects GlobalProtect app 5.0 versions earlier than 5.0.9, GlobalProtect app 5.1 versions earlier than 5.1.2 on Windows or MacOS. Since becoming aware of the issue, Palo Alto Networks has safely deleted all the known GlobalProtectLogs zip files sent by customers with the credentials. We now filter and remove these credentials from all files sent to Customer Support. The GlobalProtectLogs zip files uploaded to Palo Alto Networks systems were only accessible by authorized personnel with valid Palo Alto Networks credentials. We do not have any evidence of malicious access or use of these credentials.

The weakness was published 05/13/2020. This vulnerability is handled as CVE-2020-2004 since 12/04/2019. Local access is required to approach this attack. Required for exploitation is a simple authentication. Successful exploitation requires user interaction by the victim. Technical details are known, but there is no available exploit. This vulnerability is assigned to T1592 by the MITRE ATT&CK project.

By approaching the search of inurl:PanGPS.log it is possible to find vulnerable targets with Google Hacking.

Upgrading to version 5.0.9 or 5.1.2 eliminates this vulnerability.

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Vendor

• Palo Alto

Name

• GlobalProtect App

Version

• 5.0.0
• 5.0.1
• 5.0.2
• 5.0.3
• 5.0.4
• 5.0.5
• 5.0.6
• 5.0.7
• 5.0.8
• 5.1.0
• 5.1.1

License

• commercial

Website

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

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