Palo Alto PAN-OS up to 8.1.14/9.1.2 GlobalProtect Portal os command injection

Summaryinfo

A vulnerability was found in Palo Alto PAN-OS up to 8.1.14/9.1.2. It has been rated as critical. Affected by this vulnerability is an unknown functionality of the component GlobalProtect Portal. Performing a manipulation results in os command injection. This vulnerability was named CVE-2020-2034. The attack may be initiated remotely. There is no available exploit. Upgrading the affected component is advised.

Detailsinfo

A vulnerability, which was classified as critical, was found in Palo Alto PAN-OS up to 8.1.14/9.1.2 (Firewall Software). This affects an unknown function of the component GlobalProtect Portal. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a os command injection vulnerability. CWE is classifying the issue as CWE-78. The product constructs all or part of an OS command using externally-influenced input from an upstream component, but it does not neutralize or incorrectly neutralizes special elements that could modify the intended OS command when it is sent to a downstream component. This is going to have an impact on confidentiality, integrity, and availability. The summary by CVE is:

An OS Command Injection vulnerability in the PAN-OS GlobalProtect portal allows an unauthenticated network based attacker to execute arbitrary OS commands with root privileges. An attacker requires some knowledge of the firewall to exploit this issue. This issue can not be exploited if GlobalProtect portal feature is not enabled. This issue impacts PAN-OS 9.1 versions earlier than PAN-OS 9.1.3; PAN-OS 8.1 versions earlier than PAN-OS 8.1.15; PAN-OS 9.0 versions earlier than PAN-OS 9.0.9; all versions of PAN-OS 8.0 and PAN-OS 7.1. Prisma Access services are not impacted by this vulnerability.

The weakness was presented 07/08/2020 (Website). The advisory is shared at security.paloaltonetworks.com. This vulnerability is uniquely identified as CVE-2020-2034 since 12/04/2019. The exploitability is told to be difficult. It is possible to initiate the attack remotely. No form of authentication is needed for exploitation. Neither technical details nor an exploit are publicly available. MITRE ATT&CK project uses the attack technique T1202 for this issue.

Upgrading to version 8.1.15 or 9.1.3 eliminates this vulnerability.

See VDB-157772, VDB-157771 and VDB-157770 for similar entries. If you want to get the best quality for vulnerability data then you always have to consider 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
• 8.1.14
• 9.1.0
• 9.1.1
• 9.1.2

License

• commercial

Website

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

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Accepted

• Submit #180: PAN-OS: OS command injection vulnerability in GlobalProtect portal (by fsi_isac)

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