CVE-2020-1980

PAN-OS: Shell injection vulnerability in PAN-OS CLI allows execution of shell commands

State: Published
Severity: 7.8 High
Published: Mar 11, 2020
Updated: Sep 16, 2024
Reserved: Dec 4, 2019

Description

A shell command injection vulnerability in the PAN-OS CLI allows a local authenticated user to escape the restricted shell and escalate privileges. This issue affects only PAN-OS 8.1 versions earlier than PAN-OS 8.1.13. This issue does not affect PAN-OS 7.1, PAN-OS 9.0, or later PAN-OS versions. This issue is fixed in PAN-OS 8.1.13, and all later versions.

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-77 Improper Neutralization of Special Elements used in a Command ('Command Injection')

Affected Products

Product	Versions
PAN-OSPalo Alto Networks	8.1 < 8.1.13Affected 8.1 !>= 8.1.13Affected 9.0 !>= 9.0.0Affected 7.1 !>= 7.1.0Affected 9.1 !>= 9.1.0Affected

References

https://security.paloaltonetworks.com/CVE-2020-1980

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