Palo Alto PAN-OS up to 7.1.4 Monitor Tab cross site scripting

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A vulnerability identified as problematic has been detected in Palo Alto PAN-OS up to 7.1.4. The affected element is an unknown function of the component Monitor Tab. The manipulation leads to cross site scripting. The attack can be initiated remotely. There is not any exploit available. You should upgrade the affected component.

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A vulnerability was found in Palo Alto PAN-OS up to 7.1.4 (Firewall Software) and classified as problematic. This issue affects some unknown functionality of the component Monitor Tab. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a cross site scripting vulnerability. Using CWE to declare the problem leads to CWE-80. The product receives input from an upstream component, but it does not neutralize or incorrectly neutralizes special characters such as "<", ">", and "&" that could be interpreted as web-scripting elements when they are sent to a downstream component that processes web pages. Impacted is integrity.

The weakness was released 10/18/2016 by Juan Sacco as PAN-57659/95895 as confirmed advisory (Website). It is possible to read the advisory at securityadvisories.paloaltonetworks.com. The public release was coordinated with Palo Alto. The attack may be initiated remotely. A simple authentication is required for 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 advisory points out:

This issue affects the management interface of the device, where an authenticated administrator could inject malicious JavaScript into the web interface.

Upgrading to version 5.0.20, 5.1.13, 6.0.15, 6.1.14, 7.0.10 or 7.1.5 eliminates this vulnerability. A possible mitigation has been published immediately after the disclosure of the vulnerability.

The vulnerability is also documented in the vulnerability database at SecurityTracker (ID 1037063†). Statistical analysis made it clear that VulDB provides the best quality for vulnerability data.

Productinfo

Type

• Firewall Software

Vendor

• Palo Alto

Name

• PAN-OS

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
• 5.0.9
• 5.0.10
• 5.0.11
• 5.0.12
• 5.0.13
• 5.0.14
• 5.0.15
• 5.0.16
• 5.0.17
• 5.0.18
• 5.0.19
• 5.1.0
• 5.1.1
• 5.1.2
• 5.1.3
• 5.1.4
• 5.1.5
• 5.1.6
• 5.1.7
• 5.1.8
• 5.1.9
• 5.1.10
• 5.1.11
• 5.1.12
• 6.0.0
• 6.0.1
• 6.0.2
• 6.0.3
• 6.0.4
• 6.0.5
• 6.0.6
• 6.0.7
• 6.0.8
• 6.0.9
• 6.0.10
• 6.0.11
• 6.0.12
• 6.0.13
• 6.0.14
• 6.1.0
• 6.1.1
• 6.1.2
• 6.1.3
• 6.1.4
• 6.1.5
• 6.1.6
• 6.1.7
• 6.1.8
• 6.1.9
• 6.1.10
• 6.1.11
• 6.1.12
• 6.1.13
• 7.0.0
• 7.0.1
• 7.0.2
• 7.0.3
• 7.0.4
• 7.0.5
• 7.0.6
• 7.0.7
• 7.0.8
• 7.0.9
• 7.1.0
• 7.1.1
• 7.1.2
• 7.1.3
• 7.1.4

License

• commercial

Website

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

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