Palo Alto PAN-OS up to 9.0.9/9.1.3/10.0.0 Management Interface os command injection

Summaryinfo

A vulnerability classified as critical was found in Palo Alto PAN-OS up to 9.0.9/9.1.3/10.0.0. Affected by this issue is some unknown functionality of the component Management Interface. The manipulation results in os command injection. This vulnerability is identified as CVE-2020-2038. The attack can be executed remotely. Additionally, an exploit exists. Upgrading the affected component is advised.

Detailsinfo

A vulnerability, which was classified as critical, was found in Palo Alto PAN-OS up to 9.0.9/9.1.3/10.0.0 (Firewall Software). Affected is an unknown function of the component Management Interface. 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. CVE summarizes:

An OS Command Injection vulnerability in the PAN-OS management interface that allows authenticated administrators to execute arbitrary OS commands with root privileges. This issue impacts: PAN-OS 9.0 versions earlier than 9.0.10; PAN-OS 9.1 versions earlier than 9.1.4; PAN-OS 10.0 versions earlier than 10.0.1.

The weakness was released 09/09/2020 (Website). The advisory is available at security.paloaltonetworks.com. This vulnerability is traded as CVE-2020-2038 since 12/04/2019. It is possible to launch the attack remotely. The exploitation needs additional levels of successful authentication. Technical details are unknown but a public exploit is available. This vulnerability is assigned to T1202 by the MITRE ATT&CK project.

The exploit is shared for download at exploit-db.com. It is declared as proof-of-concept.

Upgrading to version 9.0 eliminates this vulnerability.

The vulnerability is also documented in the vulnerability database at Exploit-DB (51005). Entries connected to this vulnerability are available at VDB-160990, VDB-160989, VDB-160988 and VDB-160987. 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

• 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
• 9.0.9
• 9.1.0
• 9.1.1
• 9.1.2
• 9.1.3
• 10.0

License

• commercial

Website

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

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