Captive Portal denial of service

You can configure Palo Alto Networks firewalls to host a web-based Captive Portal to authenticate users. A denial of service condition was identified in this subsystem Ref. 92413. A third party user could remotely disrupt the captive portal’s operation, provoking a delay before it resumes normal...

Captive Portal denial of service

You can configure Palo Alto Networks firewalls to host a web-based Captive Portal to authenticate users. A denial of service condition was identified in this subsystem Ref. 92413...

Cron local privilege escalation

Palo Alto Networks firewalls use the cron infrastructure to perform household system cleanup at regular intervals. Due to an error in user input normalization, a file locally created by an end user and placed in a specific directory could be executed in a higher privilege context Ref. 93612...

Web Interface Privilege Escalation

Palo Alto Networks Panorama administrators have the ability to assign predefined permissions to users created on PAN-OS. A read-only user with CLI access could elevate web interface privileges. Ref. 88191...

Cross-site scripting issue in policy

Palo Alto Networks firewalls running the PAN-OS web interface are subject to a cross-site scripting vulnerability Ref. 93072...

Local privilege escalation

Palo Alto Networks firewalls do not properly sanitize the rootreboot local invocation which can potentially allow executing code with higher privileges Ref. 92293 CVE-2016-1712. Exploitation of this privilege escalation is restricted to local users. Potential attackers would have to first obtain ...

Local privilege escalation

Palo Alto Networks firewalls do not properly sanitize the rootreboot local invocation which can potentially allow executing code with higher privileges Ref. 92293 CVE-2016-1712. Exploitation of this privilege escalation is restricted to local users. Potential attackers would have to first obtain ...

OpenSSH vulnerabilities

OpenSSH contains two vulnerabilities CVE-2016-0777 and CVE-2016-0778 affecting the SSH client roaming feature when connecting to a malicious server. Exploitation of this issue can leak portions of memory from the SSH client process. Ref 90508 The Palo Alto Networks firewall outbound SSH client...

OpenSSH vulnerabilities

OpenSSH contains two vulnerabilities CVE-2016-0777 and CVE-2016-0778 affecting the SSH client roaming feature when connecting to a malicious server. Exploitation of this issue can leak portions of memory from the SSH client process. Ref 90508...

Update Server API Exposure

The Palo Alto Networks update server enables downloading of PAN-OS software releases and dynamic updates through a public API. Some functions of the API were inadvertently exposed to the public. API functions publicly available and exclusively used by internal workflow allowed for remote call. Th...

Update Server API Exposure

The Palo Alto Networks update server enables downloading of PAN-OS software releases and dynamic updates through a public API. Some functions of the API were inadvertently exposed to the public...

Cross-site scripting vulnerability

A cross-site scripting vulnerability exists in the web interface whereby data provided by the user is stored without sanitization. Ref 90635 CVE-2016-2219. This issue affects the management interface of the device, where an authenticated administrator may be tricked into injecting malicious...

Cross-site scripting vulnerability

A cross-site scripting vulnerability exists in the web interface whereby data provided by the user is stored without sanitization. Ref 90635 CVE-2016-2219. This issue affects the management interface of the device, where an authenticated administrator may be tricked into injecting malicious...

PAN-OS API denial of service

Palo Alto Networks firewalls offer an API to query and modify the configuration of the device. While access to this API is protected by the use of an API key, an issue was recently identified leading to a potential unauthenticated denial of service attack. Ref 91728 The API is hosted on a dedicat...

PAN-OS API denial of service

Palo Alto Networks firewalls offer an API to query and modify the configuration of the device. While access to this API is protected by the use of an API key, an issue was recently identified leading to a potential unauthenticated denial of service attack. Ref 91728...

User-ID Agent API Access

The Palo Alto Networks User-ID agent for Windows implements an API to retrieve the agent’s configuration. This TLS-secured API call returns encrypted credentials to the domain account configured on the User-ID agent, which has read-only rights for Security Event Logs on Domain Controllers. Anyone...

User-ID API Access

The Palo Alto Networks User-ID agent for Windows implements an API to retrieve the agent’s configuration. This TLS-secured API call returns encrypted credentials to the domain account configured on the User-ID agent, which has read-only rights for Security Event Logs on Domain Controllers. Anyone...

HTTP Header Evasion

An evasion was identified whereby a user could specially craft an HTTP header to evade URL filtering on Palo Alto Networks firewalls. Ref 93838 The HTTP header evasion technique can be used by a malicious insider to bypass URL filtering policy. It is not a product vulnerability that affects the...

HTTP Header Evasion

An evasion was identified whereby a user could specially craft an HTTP header to evade URL filtering on Palo Alto Networks firewalls. Ref 93838...

Unauthenticated Buffer Overflow in GlobalProtect/SSL VPN Web Interface

When a PAN-OS device is configured as a GlobalProtect portal, a vulnerability exists where an improper handling of a buffer involved in the processing of SSL VPN requests can result in device crash and possible remote code execution. Ref. 89752 CVE-2016-3657 An attacker with network access to the...

Unauthenticated Command Injection in Management Web Interface

Palo Alto Networks PAN-OS implements an API to enable programmatic device configuration and administration of the device. An issue was identified where the management API incorrectly parses input to a specific API call, leading to execution of arbitrary OS commands without authentication via the...

Command Injection in Command Line Interface

Palo Alto Networks firewalls implement a command line interface for interactive configuration through a serial interface or a remote SSH session. An issue was identified that can cause incorrect parsing of a specific SSH command parameter, leading to arbitrary command execution on the OS level...

Command Injection in Command Line Interface

Palo Alto Networks firewalls implement a command line interface for interactive configuration through a serial interface or a remote SSH session. An issue was identified that can cause incorrect parsing of a specific SSH command parameter, leading to arbitrary command execution on the OS level...

Unauthenticated Command Injection in Management Web Interface

Palo Alto Networks PAN-OS implements an API to enable programmatic device configuration and administration of the device. An issue was identified where the management API incorrectly parses input to a specific API call, leading to execution of arbitrary OS commands without authentication via the...

Unauthenticated Buffer Overflow in GlobalProtect/SSL VPN Web Interface

When a PAN-OS device is configured as a GlobalProtect portal, a vulnerability exists where an improper handling of a buffer involved in the processing of SSL VPN requests can result in device crash and possible remote code execution. Ref. 89752 CVE-2016-3657 An attacker with network access to the...

Unauthenticated Stack Exhaustion in GlobalProtect/SSL VPN Web Interface

When a PAN-OS device is configured as a GlobalProtect web portal, a specially crafted request to the portal could result in a crash of the service. Ref. 89750 CVE-2016-3656 This issue can be exploited remotely by an attacker with network access to the GlobalProtect portal in order to cause a...

Unauthenticated Stack Exhaustion in GlobalProtect/SSL VPN Web Interface

When a PAN-OS device is configured as a GlobalProtect web portal, a specially crafted request to the portal could result in a crash of the service. Ref. 89750 CVE-2016-3656 This issue can be exploited remotely by an attacker with network access to the GlobalProtect portal in order to cause a...

ESM Console XSS vulnerability

A cross-site scripting vulnerability exists in the web-based console management. This vulnerability has been assigned CVE-2015-2223. This issue affects the management interface of Traps, where an authenticated administrator may be tricked into injecting malicious JavaScript into the web UI...

ESM Console XSS vulnerability

A cross-site scripting vulnerability exists in the web-based console management. This vulnerability has been assigned CVE-2015-2223. This issue affects the management interface of Traps, where an authenticated administrator may be tricked into injecting malicious JavaScript into the web UI...

API key automatic revocation

An issue has been identified in PAN-OS that prevents old management API keys for local administrator accounts from being invalidated upon password change until the device is rebooted. This issue can create a period of time during which an administrator changes the account password, thus creating ...

API key automatic revocation

An issue has been identified in PAN-OS that prevents old management API keys for local administrator accounts from being invalidated upon password change until the device is rebooted. This issue can create a period of time during which an administrator changes the account password, thus creating ...

Device management authentication bypass

Devices running PAN-OS 7.0.0 including Panorama that are configured to use LDAP for captive portal or device management authentication do not properly perform authentication against the LDAP server in specific cases, leading to an authentication bypass. There is no issue if you are using Radius o...

Device management authentication bypass

Devices running PAN-OS 7.0.0 including Panorama that are configured to use LDAP for captive portal or device management authentication do not properly perform authentication against the LDAP server in specific cases, leading to an authentication bypass. There is no issue if you are using Radius o...

XML External Entity (XXE) Vulnerability

An XML parsing vulnerability exists in PAN-OS allowing a malicious user within PAN-OS to inject malicious XML data into the web-based device management front-end allowing the user to retrieve arbitrary content from the device. The user must be an authenticated user issuing the request. Ref 71273...

XML External Entity (XXE) Vulnerability

An XML parsing vulnerability exists in PAN-OS allowing a malicious user within PAN-OS to inject malicious XML data into the web-based device management front-end allowing the user to retrieve arbitrary content from the device. The user must be an authenticated user issuing the request. Ref 71273...

Cross-site Scripting Vulnerability

A cross-site scripting vulnerability exists in the web-based device management interface whereby data provided by the user is echoed back to the user without sanitization. Ref 73638 This issue affects the management interface of the device, where an authenticated administrator may be tricked into...

Cross-site Scripting Vulnerability

A cross-site scripting vulnerability exists in the web-based device management interface whereby data provided by the user is echoed back to the user without sanitization. Ref 73638...

GHOST: glibc vulnerability

The open source library “glibc” has been found to contain a recently discovered vulnerability CVE-2015-0235, commonly referred to as “GHOST” that has been demonstrated to enable remote code execution in some software. Palo Alto Networks software makes use of the vulnerable library, however there ...

GHOST: glibc vulnerability

The open source library “glibc” has been found to contain a recently discovered vulnerability CVE-2015-0235, commonly referred to as “GHOST” that has been demonstrated to enable remote code execution in some software. Palo Alto Networks software makes use of the vulnerable library, however there ...

Padding-oracle attack on TLS CBC cipher mode

A vulnerability affecting some implementations of TLS 1.x with CBC cipher modes has been discovered that allows an attacker to decrypt some encrypted contents under certain conditions CVE-2014-8730. This padding-oracle attack on TLS CBC cipher modes is a variant of the POODLE vulnerability,...

Padding-oracle attack on TLS CBC cipher mode

A vulnerability affecting some implementations of TLS 1.x with CBC cipher modes has been discovered that allows an attacker to decrypt some encrypted contents under certain conditions CVE-2014-8730. This padding-oracle attack on TLS CBC cipher modes is a variant of the POODLE vulnerability,...

Cross-site scripting vulnerability

A cross-site scripting vulnerability exists in the web-based device management interface whereby data provided by the user is echoed back to the user without sanitization. Ref 64563. This vulnerability has been assigned CVE-2014-3764. This issue affects the management interface of the device, whe...

Cross-site scripting vulnerability

A cross-site scripting vulnerability exists in the web-based device management interface whereby data provided by the user is echoed back to the user without sanitization. Ref 64563. This vulnerability has been assigned CVE-2014-3764. This issue affects the management interface of the device, whe...

Privilege escalation in GlobalProtect App for Mac OS X

A path injection vulnerability affecting the GlobalProtect App for Mac OS X 2.1.0 and earlier could allow a local attacker to gain elevated privileges on a targeted system. Successful exploitation of this vulnerability results in a lower privileged user obtaining elevated privileges. A local...

Privilege escalation in GlobalProtect agent for Mac OS X

A path injection vulnerability affecting the GlobalProtect agent for Mac OS X 2.1.0 and earlier could allow a local attacker to gain elevated privileges on a targeted system...

SSL 3.0 MITM Attack

A vulnerability affecting most implementations of SSL 3.0 has been discovered that allows an attacker to decrypt some encrypted contents under certain conditions CVE-2014-3566. The SSL protocol 3.0, as used in OpenSSL through 1.0.1i and other products, uses nondeterministic CBC padding, which mak...

SSL 3.0 MITM Attack

A vulnerability affecting most implementations of SSL 3.0 has been discovered that allows an attacker to decrypt some encrypted contents under certain conditions CVE-2014-3566. The SSL protocol 3.0, as used in OpenSSL through 1.0.1i and other products, uses nondeterministic CBC padding, which mak...

Bash Shell remote code execution (CVE-2014-6271, CVE-2014-7169)

Palo Alto Networks has become aware of a remote code execution vulnerability in the Bash shell utility. This vulnerability CVE-2014-6271 allows for remote code execution through multiple vectors due to the way Bash is often used on linux systems for processing commands. Additional information can...

Bash Shell remote code execution (CVE-2014-6271, CVE-2014-7169)

Palo Alto Networks has become aware of a remote code execution vulnerability in the Bash shell utility. This vulnerability CVE-2014-6271 allows for remote code execution through multiple vectors due to the way Bash is often used on linux systems for processing commands. Additional information can...

OpenSSL Man-in-the-middle vulnerability

The Palo Alto Networks product security engineering team has completed analysis of our products' exposure to the vulnerabilities described in the OpenSSL Security Advisory dated June 5th, 2014. Of the 7 CVEs highlighted in the advisory, only CVE-2014-0224 is relevant to our software. The...