CVE-2019-17437

PAN-OS: Custom-role users may escalate privileges

State: Published
Severity: 7.8 High
Published: Dec 5, 2019
Updated: Sep 17, 2024
Reserved: Oct 10, 2019

Description

An improper authentication check in Palo Alto Networks PAN-OS may allow an authenticated low privileged non-superuser custom role user to elevate privileges and become superuser. This issue affects PAN-OS 7.1 versions prior to 7.1.25; 8.0 versions prior to 8.0.20; 8.1 versions prior to 8.1.11; 9.0 versions prior to 9.0.5. PAN-OS version 7.0 and prior EOL versions have not been evaluated for this issue.

Scores

CVSS	Score	Vector	Source
3.1	7.8 High	CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H	palo_alto

Weaknesses

CWE-280 Improper Handling of Insufficient Permissions or Privileges

Affected Products

Product	Versions
PAN-OSPalo Alto Networks	7.0 and earlierUnknown 7.1 to before 7.1.25Affected 8.0 to before 8.0.20Affected 8.1 to before 8.1.11Affected 9.0 to before 9.0.5Affected

References

https://securityadvisories.paloaltonetworks.com/Home/Detail/159

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