4.8 Medium
CVSS3
Attack Vector
NETWORK
Attack Complexity
HIGH
Privileges Required
NONE
User Interaction
NONE
Scope
UNCHANGED
Confidentiality Impact
NONE
Integrity Impact
LOW
Availability Impact
LOW
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:L
7 High
AI Score
Confidence
High
5.8 Medium
CVSS2
Access Vector
NETWORK
Access Complexity
MEDIUM
Authentication
NONE
Confidentiality Impact
NONE
Integrity Impact
PARTIAL
Availability Impact
PARTIAL
AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:P
0.004 Low
EPSS
Percentile
74.7%
A vulnerability exists in the kernel of PAN-OS that may result in
Information Disclosure.
# Copyright (C) 2017 Greenbone Networks GmbH
# Some text descriptions might be excerpted from (a) referenced
# source(s), and are Copyright (C) by the respective right holder(s).
#
# SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-or-later
#
# This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or
# modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License
# as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2
# of the License, or (at your option) any later version.
#
# This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
# but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
# MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the
# GNU General Public License for more details.
#
# You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
# along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software
# Foundation, Inc., 51 Franklin St, Fifth Floor, Boston, MA 02110-1301 USA.
CPE = "cpe:/o:paloaltonetworks:pan-os";
if (description)
{
script_oid("1.3.6.1.4.1.25623.1.0.106826");
script_version("2022-11-16T10:12:35+0000");
script_tag(name:"last_modification", value:"2022-11-16 10:12:35 +0000 (Wed, 16 Nov 2022)");
script_tag(name:"creation_date", value:"2017-05-23 15:33:39 +0700 (Tue, 23 May 2017)");
script_tag(name:"cvss_base", value:"5.8");
script_tag(name:"cvss_base_vector", value:"AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:P");
script_tag(name:"severity_vector", value:"CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:L");
script_tag(name:"severity_origin", value:"NVD");
script_tag(name:"severity_date", value:"2018-01-05 02:31:00 +0000 (Fri, 05 Jan 2018)");
script_cve_id("CVE-2016-5696");
script_tag(name:"qod_type", value:"package");
script_tag(name:"solution_type", value:"VendorFix");
script_name("Palo Alto PAN-OS Kernel Vulnerability");
script_category(ACT_GATHER_INFO);
script_copyright("Copyright (C) 2017 Greenbone Networks GmbH");
script_family("Palo Alto PAN-OS Local Security Checks");
script_dependencies("gb_paloalto_panos_consolidation.nasl");
script_mandatory_keys("palo_alto_pan_os/version");
script_tag(name:"summary", value:"A vulnerability exists in the kernel of PAN-OS that may result in
Information Disclosure.");
script_tag(name:"vuldetect", value:"Checks if a vulnerable version is present on the target host.");
script_tag(name:"insight", value:"The challenge ACK rate limiting in the kernel's networking subsystem may
allow an off-path attacker to leak certain information about a given connection by creating congestion on the
global challenge ACK rate limit counter and then measuring the changes by probing packets.");
script_tag(name:"affected", value:"PAN-OS 6.1, PAN-OS 7.0.15 and earlier, PAN-OS 7.1.9 and earlier.");
script_tag(name:"solution", value:"Update to PAN-OS 7.0.16, 7.1.10 or later.");
script_xref(name:"URL", value:"https://securityadvisories.paloaltonetworks.com/Home/Detail/85");
exit(0);
}
include("host_details.inc");
include("version_func.inc");
if (!version = get_app_version(cpe: CPE, nofork: TRUE))
exit(0);
model = get_kb_item("palo_alto_pan_os/model");
if (version_is_less(version: version, test_version: "7.0.16")) {
report = report_fixed_ver(installed_version: version, fixed_version: "7.0.16");
if (model)
report += '\nModel: ' + model;
security_message(port: 0, data: report);
exit(0);
}
if (version =~ "^7\.1\.") {
if (version_is_less(version: version, test_version: "7.1.10")) {
report = report_fixed_ver(installed_version: version, fixed_version: "7.1.10");
if (model)
report += '\nModel: ' + model;
security_message(port: 0, data: report);
exit(0);
}
}
exit(99);
4.8 Medium
CVSS3
Attack Vector
NETWORK
Attack Complexity
HIGH
Privileges Required
NONE
User Interaction
NONE
Scope
UNCHANGED
Confidentiality Impact
NONE
Integrity Impact
LOW
Availability Impact
LOW
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:L
7 High
AI Score
Confidence
High
5.8 Medium
CVSS2
Access Vector
NETWORK
Access Complexity
MEDIUM
Authentication
NONE
Confidentiality Impact
NONE
Integrity Impact
PARTIAL
Availability Impact
PARTIAL
AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:P
0.004 Low
EPSS
Percentile
74.7%