CVE-2021-3064

PAN-OS: Memory Corruption Vulnerability in GlobalProtect Portal and Gateway Interfaces

State: Published
Severity: 9.8 Critical
Published: Nov 10, 2021
Updated: Sep 17, 2024
Reserved: Jan 6, 2021

Description

A memory corruption vulnerability exists in Palo Alto Networks GlobalProtect portal and gateway interfaces that enables an unauthenticated network-based attacker to disrupt system processes and potentially execute arbitrary code with root privileges. The attacker must have network access to the GlobalProtect interface to exploit this issue. This issue impacts PAN-OS 8.1 versions earlier than PAN-OS 8.1.17. Prisma Access customers are not impacted by this issue.

Scores

CVSS	Score	Vector	Source
3.1	9.8 Critical	CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/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	9.0.Not affected 9.1.Not affected 10.0.Not affected 10.1.Not affected 8.1 to before 8.1.17Affectedfrom 8.1.17Not affected
Prisma AccessPalo Alto Networks	2.2 allNot affected 2.1 allNot affected

References

https://security.paloaltonetworks.com/CVE-2021-3064

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