Palo Alto PAN-OS up to 8.1.13/9.0.8/9.1.2 inadequate encryption

Summaryinfo

A vulnerability was found in Palo Alto PAN-OS up to 8.1.13/9.0.8/9.1.2 and classified as critical. This affects an unknown function. The manipulation results in inadequate encryption. This vulnerability is known as CVE-2020-1982. It is possible to launch the attack remotely. No exploit is available. It is suggested to upgrade the affected component.

Detailsinfo

A vulnerability classified as problematic has been found in Palo Alto PAN-OS up to 8.1.13/9.0.8/9.1.2 (Firewall Software). Affected is an unknown code. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a inadequate encryption vulnerability. CWE is classifying the issue as CWE-326. The product stores or transmits sensitive data using an encryption scheme that is theoretically sound, but is not strong enough for the level of protection required. This is going to have an impact on confidentiality. CVE summarizes:

Certain communication between PAN-OS and cloud-delivered services inadvertently use TLS 1.0, which is known to be a cryptographically weak protocol. These cloud services include Cortex Data Lake, the Customer Support Portal, and the Prisma Access infrastructure. Conditions required for exploitation of known TLS 1.0 weaknesses do not exist for the communication between PAN-OS and cloud-delivered services. We do not believe that any communication is impacted as a result of known attacks against TLS 1.0. This issue impacts: All versions of PAN-OS 8.0; PAN-OS 8.1 versions earlier than PAN-OS 8.1.14; PAN-OS 9.0 versions earlier than PAN-OS 9.0.9; PAN-OS 9.1 versions earlier than PAN-OS 9.1.3. PAN-OS 7.1 is not impacted by this issue.

The weakness was published 07/08/2020 (Website). The advisory is available at security.paloaltonetworks.com. This vulnerability is traded as CVE-2020-1982 since 12/04/2019. The exploitability is told to be difficult. It is possible to launch the attack remotely. The exploitation doesn't require any form of authentication. The technical details are unknown and an exploit is not available. This vulnerability is assigned to T1600 by the MITRE ATT&CK project.

Upgrading to version 8.1.14, 9.0.9 or 9.1.3 eliminates this vulnerability.

Similar entries are available at VDB-157773, VDB-157772 and VDB-157771. If you want to get best quality of vulnerability data, you may have to visit VulDB.

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Type

• Firewall Software

Vendor

• Palo Alto

Name

• PAN-OS

Version

• 8.1.0
• 8.1.1
• 8.1.2
• 8.1.3
• 8.1.4
• 8.1.5
• 8.1.6
• 8.1.7
• 8.1.8
• 8.1.9
• 8.1.10
• 8.1.11
• 8.1.12
• 8.1.13
• 9.0.0
• 9.0.1
• 9.0.2
• 9.0.3
• 9.0.4
• 9.0.5
• 9.0.6
• 9.0.7
• 9.0.8
• 9.1.0
• 9.1.1
• 9.1.2

License

• commercial

Website

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

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