CVE-2020-1990

PAN-OS: Buffer overflow in the management server

State: Published
Severity: 7.2 High
Published: Apr 8, 2020
Updated: Sep 17, 2024
Reserved: Dec 4, 2019

Description

A stack-based buffer overflow vulnerability in the management server component of PAN-OS allows an authenticated user to upload a corrupted PAN-OS configuration and potentially execute code with root privileges. This issue affects Palo Alto Networks PAN-OS 8.1 versions before 8.1.13; 9.0 versions before 9.0.7. This issue does not affect PAN-OS 7.1.

Scores

CVSS	Score	Vector	Source
3.1	7.2 High	CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H	palo_alto

Weaknesses

CWE-121 Stack-based Buffer Overflow

Affected Products

Product	Versions
PAN-OSPalo Alto Networks	7.1.*Not affected 8.1 to before 8.1.13Affectedfrom 8.1.13Not affected 9.0 to before 9.0.7Affectedfrom 9.0.7Not affected

References

https://security.paloaltonetworks.com/CVE-2020-1990

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