CVE-2020-1981

PAN-OS: Predictable temporary filename vulnerability allows local privilege escalation

State: Published
Severity: 7.0 High
Published: Mar 11, 2020
Updated: Sep 17, 2024
Reserved: Dec 4, 2019

Description

A predictable temporary filename vulnerability in PAN-OS allows local privilege escalation. This issue allows a local attacker who bypassed the restricted shell to execute commands as a low privileged user and gain root access on the PAN-OS hardware or virtual appliance. 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.

Scores

CVSS	Score	Vector	Source
3.1	7.0 High	CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H	palo_alto

Weaknesses

CWE-377 Insecure Temporary File

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-2020-1981

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