Palo Alto Networks Product Security Incident Response TeamPAN-SA-2019-0017Privilege Escalation in PAN-OS
7.8 High
CVSS3
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
7.2 High
CVSS2
Access Vector
LOCAL
Access 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
0.001 Low
EPSS
Percentile
31.0%
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
Related
7.8 High
CVSS3
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
7.2 High
CVSS2
Access Vector
LOCAL
Access 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
0.001 Low
EPSS
Percentile
31.0%