CVE-2020-2018

PAN-OS: Panorama authentication bypass vulnerability

State: Published
Severity: 9.0 Critical
Published: May 13, 2020
Updated: Sep 16, 2024
Reserved: Dec 4, 2019

Description

An authentication bypass vulnerability in the Panorama context switching feature allows an attacker with network access to a Panorama's management interface to gain privileged access to managed firewalls. An attacker requires some knowledge of managed firewalls to exploit this issue. This issue does not affect Panorama configured with custom certificates authentication for communication between Panorama and managed devices. This issue affects: PAN-OS 7.1 versions earlier than 7.1.26; PAN-OS 8.1 versions earlier than 8.1.12; PAN-OS 9.0 versions earlier than 9.0.6; All versions of PAN-OS 8.0.

Scores

CVSS	Score	Vector	Source
3.1	9.0 Critical	CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H	palo_alto

Weaknesses

CWE-287 Improper Authentication

Affected Products

Product	Versions
PAN-OSPalo Alto Networks	8.0.*Affected 7.1 to before 7.1.26Affectedfrom 7.1.26Not affected 8.1 to before 8.1.12Affectedfrom 8.1.12Not affected 9.0 to before 9.0.6Affectedfrom 9.0.6Not affected

References

https://security.paloaltonetworks.com/CVE-2020-2018

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