Privilege Escalation in PAN-OS

2019-07-1522:15:00

Palo Alto Networks Product Security Incident Response Team

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CVSS2

7.2

Attack Vector

LOCAL

Attack Complexity

LOW

Authentication

NONE

Confidentiality Impact

COMPLETE

Integrity Impact

COMPLETE

Availability Impact

COMPLETE

AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

CVSS3

7.8

Attack Vector

LOCAL

Attack Complexity

LOW

Privileges Required

LOW

User Interaction

NONE

Scope

UNCHANGED

Confidentiality Impact

HIGH

Integrity Impact

HIGH

Availability Impact

HIGH

CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

EPSS

0.001

Percentile

32.1%

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Palo Alto Networks is aware of a use-after-free (UAF) vulnerability in the Linux kernel’s sockfs_setattr. (Ref: PAN-113631/ CVE-2019-8912)
Successful exploitation of this issue may allow an unprivileged local user to escalate their privileges on the system.
This issue affects PAN-OS 7.1.23 and earlier, PAN-OS 8.0.17 and earlier, PAN-OS 8.1.8 and earlier, and PAN-OS 9.0.2 and earlier.

Work around:
N/A