PAN-OS: Information exposure in Ethernet data frame construction (Etherleak)

Padding bytes in Ethernet packets on PA-200, PA-220, PA-500, PA-5000 Series, PA-800, PA-2000 Series, PA-3000 Series, PA-3200 Series, PA-5200 Series, and PA-7000 Series firewalls are not cleared before the data frame is created. This leaks a small amount of random information from the firewall memory into the Ethernet packets. An attacker on the same Ethernet subnet as the PAN-OS firewall is able to collect potentially sensitive information from these packets.

This issue is also known as Etherleak and is detected by security scanners as CVE-2003-0001.

Work around:
There is no workaround to prevent the information leak in the Ethernet packets; however, restricting access to the networks mitigates the risk of this issue.