Informational: Impact of OpenSSL vulnerability CVE-2020-1971

Palo Alto Networks Product Security Assurance team has evaluated the vulnerability CVE-2020-1971 that affects the OpenSSL library. The vulnerability does not have a security impact on PAN-OS, GlobalProtect App, or Cortex XSOAR. The scenarios required for successful exploitation do not exist on...

Cortex XDR Agent: Improper control of loaded DLL leads to local privilege escalation

A local privilege escalation vulnerability exists in Palo Alto Networks Cortex XDR Agent on the Windows platform that allows an authenticated local Windows user to execute programs with SYSTEM privileges. This requires the user to have the privilege to create files in the Windows root directory...

PAN-OS: System proxy passwords may be logged in clear text while viewing system state

An information exposure through log file vulnerability exists where the password for the configured system proxy server for a PAN-OS appliance may be displayed in cleartext when using the CLI in Palo Alto Networks PAN-OS software. This issue impacts: PAN-OS 8.1 versions earlier than PAN-OS 8.1.17...

PAN-OS: OS command injection and memory corruption vulnerability

An OS command injection and memory corruption vulnerability in the PAN-OS management web interface that allows authenticated administrators to disrupt system processes and potentially execute arbitrary code and OS commands with root privileges. This issue impacts: PAN-OS 8.1 versions earlier than...

PAN-OS: Threat signatures are evaded by specifically crafted packets

A vulnerability exists in the Palo Alto Network PAN-OS signature-based threat detection engine that allows an attacker to evade threat prevention signatures using specifically crafted TCP packets. This CVE has no impact on the confidentiality and availability of PAN-OS. This issue does not let an...

PAN-OS: Authentication bypass vulnerability in GlobalProtect client certificate verification

An authentication bypass vulnerability exists in the GlobalProtect SSL VPN component of Palo Alto Networks PAN-OS software that allows an attacker to bypass all client certificate checks with an invalid certificate. A remote attacker can successfully authenticate as any user and gain access to...

PAN-OS: Panorama session disclosure during context switch into managed device

An information exposure vulnerability exists in Palo Alto Networks Panorama software that discloses the token for the Panorama web interface administrator's session to a managed device when the Panorama administrator performs a context switch into that device. This vulnerability allows an attacke...

Informational: Cortex XSOAR: Impact of Linux and Docker vulnerabilities on Cortex XSOAR

Cortex XSOAR provides analysts with the option to specify the Docker image to use for running custom scripts and integrations. An analyst who has write permission to scripts or integrations is able to exploit Docker vulnerabilities such as CVE-2019-5736, or Linux kernel vulnerability such as...

PAN-OS: Management web interface denial-of-service (DoS) through unauthenticated file upload

An uncontrolled resource consumption vulnerability in Palo Alto Networks PAN-OS allows for a remote unauthenticated user to upload temporary files through the management web interface that are not properly deleted after the request is finished. It is possible for an attacker to disrupt the...

PAN-OS: Management web interface denial-of-service (DoS)

An insecure configuration of the appweb daemon of Palo Alto Networks PAN-OS 8.1 allows a remote unauthenticated user to send a specifically crafted request to the device that causes the appweb service to crash. Repeated attempts to send this request result in denial of service to all PAN-OS...

PAN-OS: Buffer overflow when Captive Portal or Multi-Factor Authentication (MFA) is enabled

A buffer overflow vulnerability in PAN-OS allows an unauthenticated attacker to disrupt system processes and potentially execute arbitrary code with root privileges by sending a malicious request to the Captive Portal or Multi-Factor Authentication interface. This issue impacts: All versions of...

PAN-OS: Passwords may be logged in clear text when using after-change-detail custom syslog field for config logs

An information exposure through log file vulnerability where sensitive fields are recorded in the configuration log without masking on Palo Alto Networks PAN-OS software when the after-change-detail custom syslog field is enabled for configuration logs and the sensitive field appears multiple tim...

PAN-OS: OS command injection vulnerability in the management web interface

An OS Command Injection vulnerability in the PAN-OS management interface that allows authenticated administrators to execute arbitrary OS commands with root privileges. This issue impacts: PAN-OS 9.0 versions earlier than 9.0.10; PAN-OS 9.1 versions earlier than 9.1.4; PAN-OS 10.0 versions earlie...

PAN-OS: Reflected Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) vulnerability in management web interface

A reflected cross-site scripting XSS vulnerability exists in the PAN-OS management web interface. A remote attacker able to convince an administrator with an active authenticated session on the firewall management interface to click on a crafted link to that management web interface could...

PAN-OS: Passwords may be logged in clear text while storing operational command (op command) history

An information exposure through log file vulnerability where an administrator's password or other sensitive information may be logged in cleartext while using the CLI in Palo Alto Networks PAN-OS software. The opcmdhistory.log file was introduced to track operational command op-command usage but...

PAN-OS: OS command injection vulnerability in the management web interface

An OS Command Injection vulnerability in the PAN-OS management interface that allows authenticated administrators to execute arbitrary OS commands with root privileges. This issue impacts: PAN-OS 8.1 versions earlier than PAN-OS 8.1.16; PAN-OS 9.0 versions earlier than PAN-OS 9.0.10; PAN-OS 9.1...

PAN-OS: Buffer overflow in the management web interface

A buffer overflow vulnerability in the PAN-OS management web interface allows authenticated administrators to disrupt system processes and potentially execute arbitrary code with root privileges. This issue impacts only PAN-OS 10.0 versions earlier than PAN-OS 10.0.1. Work around: This issue...

PAN-OS: URL filtering policy is not enforced on TLS handshakes for decrypted HTTPS sessions

When SSL/TLS Forward Proxy Decryption mode has been configured to decrypt the web transactions, the PAN-OS URL filtering feature inspects the HTTP Host and URL path headers for policy enforcement on the decrypted HTTPS web transactions but does not consider Server Name Indication SNI field within...

Informational: BootHole Vulnerability Impact on Palo Alto Networks PAN-OS Software

Palo Alto Networks is aware of the vulnerability known as BootHole CVE-2020-10713 that affects the Grand Unified Bootloader GRUB used in Palo Alto Networks PAN-OS software. BootHole is a buffer overflow vulnerability that occurs in GRUB2 when parsing an attacker-controlled grub.cfg file. This...

Informational: Mitigating threats for GlobalProtect clients connecting from untrusted networks

Orange Cyberdefense presented a study on the efficacy of modern commercial VPN solutions when providing security to clients on untrusted networks, such as internet hotspots. The study aims to make network administrators aware that they must carefully deploy their VPN solutions. This study...

Informational: Third-party or open source vulnerabilities that do not impact Palo Alto Networks Products

The Palo Alto Networks Product Security Assurance team has evaluated and determined that these third-party or open source vulnerabilities do not have any security impact on PAN-OS or that the scenarios required for successful exploitation do not exist on devices running a PAN-OS release. The...

PAN-OS: TLS 1.0 usage for certain communications with Palo Alto Networks cloud delivered services

Certain communication between PAN-OS and cloud-delivered services inadvertently use TLS 1.0, which is known to be a cryptographically weak protocol. These cloud services include Cortex Data Lake, the Customer Support Portal, and the Prisma Access infrastructure. Conditions required for exploitati...

PAN-OS: Integer underflow in the management interface

An integer underflow vulnerability in the dnsproxyd component of the PAN-OS management interface allows authenticated administrators to issue a command from the command line interface that causes the component to stop responding. Repeated attempts to send this request result in denial of service ...

PAN-OS: OS command injection vulnerability in the management interface

An OS Command Injection vulnerability in the PAN-OS management interface that allows authenticated administrators to execute arbitrary OS commands with root privileges. This issue impacts PAN-OS 8.1 versions earlier than PAN-OS 8.1.15; and all versions of PAN-OS 7.1 and PAN-OS 8.0. This issue doe...

PAN-OS: OS command injection vulnerability in GlobalProtect portal

An OS Command Injection vulnerability in the PAN-OS GlobalProtect portal allows an unauthenticated network-based attacker to execute arbitrary OS commands with root privileges. An attacker would require some level of specific information about the configuration of an impacted firewall or perform...

PAN-OS: Authentication Bypass in SAML Authentication

When Security Assertion Markup Language SAML authentication is enabled and the 'Validate Identity Provider Certificate' option is disabled unchecked, improper verification of signatures in PAN-OS SAML authentication enables an unauthenticated network-based attacker to access protected resources...

PAN-OS: Buffer overflow in authd authentication response

A buffer overflow vulnerability in the authd component of the PAN-OS management server allows authenticated administrators to disrupt system processes and potentially execute arbitrary code with root privileges. This issue affects: All versions of PAN-OS 7.1 and PAN-OS 8.0; PAN-OS 8.1 versions...

PAN-OS: OS command injection vulnerability in management interface certificate generator

An OS Command Injection vulnerability in the PAN-OS web management interface allows authenticated administrators to execute arbitrary OS commands with root privileges by sending a malicious request to generate new certificates for use in the PAN-OS configuration. This issue affects: All versions ...

GlobalProtect App: File race condition vulnerability leads to local privilege escalation during upgrade

A race condition vulnerability Palo Alto Networks GlobalProtect app on Windows allows a local limited Windows user to execute programs with SYSTEM privileges. This issue can be exploited only while performing a GlobalProtect app upgrade. This issue affects: GlobalProtect app 5.0 versions earlier...

PAN-OS: OS command injection vulnerability in FIPS-CC mode certificate verification

An OS Command Injection vulnerability in PAN-OS management server allows authenticated administrators to execute arbitrary OS commands with root privileges when uploading a new certificate in FIPS-CC mode. This issue affects: All versions of PAN-OS 7.1 and PAN-OS 8.0; PAN-OS 8.1 versions earlier...

GlobalProtect App: Missing certificate validation vulnerability can disclose pre-logon authentication cookie

When the pre-logon feature is enabled, a missing certification validation in Palo Alto Networks GlobalProtect app can disclose the pre-logon authentication cookie to a man-in-the-middle attacker on the same local area network segment with the ability to manipulate ARP or to conduct ARP spoofing...

PAN-OS: Temporary file race condition vulnerability in PAN-OS leads to local privilege escalation

A race condition due to insecure creation of a file in a temporary directory vulnerability in PAN-OS allows for root privilege escalation from a limited linux user account. This allows an attacker who has escaped the restricted shell as a low privilege administrator, possibly by exploiting anothe...

PAN-OS: Panorama External control of file vulnerability leads to privilege escalation

An external control of path and data vulnerability in the Palo Alto Networks PAN-OS Panorama XSLT processing logic that allows an unauthenticated user with network access to PAN-OS management interface to write attacker supplied file on the system and elevate privileges. This issue affects: All...

PAN-OS: Improper SAML SSO authorization of shared local users

An improper authorization vulnerability in PAN-OS that mistakenly uses the permissions of local linux users instead of the intended SAML permissions of the account when the username is shared for the purposes of SSO authentication. This can result in authentication bypass and unintended resource...

PAN-OS: Buffer overflow in the management server

A buffer overflow vulnerability in the PAN-OS management server allows authenticated users to crash system processes or potentially execute arbitrary code with root privileges. This issue affects: PAN-OS 7.1 versions earlier than 7.1.26; PAN-OS 8.1 versions earlier than 8.1.13; PAN-OS 9.0 version...

PAN-OS: OS command injection in management server

An OS command injection vulnerability in the management server component of PAN-OS allows an authenticated user to potentially execute arbitrary commands with root privileges. This issue affects: All PAN-OS 7.1 and 8.0 versions; PAN-OS 8.1 versions earlier than 8.1.14; PAN-OS 9.0 versions earlier...

PAN-OS: Panorama authentication bypass vulnerability

An authentication bypass vulnerability in the Panorama context switching feature allows an attacker with network access to a Panorama's management interface to gain privileged access to managed firewalls. An attacker requires some knowledge of managed firewalls to exploit this issue. This issue...

PAN-OS: Nginx software upgraded to resolve multiple vulnerabilities

Nginx software included with PAN-OS has been upgraded to resolve multiple vulnerabilities. This issue affects: All PAN-OS 7.1 and 8.0 versions; PAN-OS 8.1 versions earlier than 8.1.14; PAN-OS 9.0 versions earlier than 9.0.7. The resolved vulnerabilities include: Work around: Issues that affect th...

PAN-OS: Nginx integer overflow may lead to information leak

Nginx web-server included with PAN-OS is vulnerable to an integer overflow vulnerability that can leak potentially a cache file header if a response was returned from cache. This issue affects: PAN-OS 7.1 versions earlier than 7.1.26; PAN-OS 8.1 versions earlier than 8.1.13; PAN-OS 9.0 versions...

PAN-OS: DOM-Based cross site scripting vulnerability in management web interface

A DOM-Based Cross Site Scripting Vulnerability exists in PAN-OS and Panorama Management Web Interfaces. A remote attacker able to convince an authenticated administrator to click on a crafted link to PAN-OS and Panorama Web Interfaces could execute arbitrary JavaScript code in the administrator's...

PAN-OS: OpenSSH software upgraded to resolve multiple vulnerabilities

OpenSSH software included with PAN-OS has been upgraded to resolve security vulnerability CVE-2016-10012. Additionally, code changes have been made to the server component of the OpenSSH software included in PAN-OS in response to CVE-2015-8325 and CVE-2016-1908 though PAN-OS is not impacted by...

PAN-OS: GlobalProtect registration open redirect

An open redirection vulnerability in the GlobalProtect component of Palo Alto Networks PAN-OS allows an attacker to specify an arbitrary redirection target away from the trusted GlobalProtect gateway. If the user then successfully authenticates it will cause them to access an unexpected and...

PAN-OS: Authenticated user command injection vulnerability

An OS command injection vulnerability in PAN-OS management interface allows an authenticated administrator to execute arbitrary OS commands with root privileges. This issue affects: All versions of PAN-OS 7.1 and 8.0; PAN-OS 8.1 versions earlier than 8.1.14; PAN-OS 9.0 versions earlier than 9.0.7...

PAN-OS: Spoofed Kerberos key distribution center authentication bypass

An authentication bypass by spoofing vulnerability exists in the authentication daemon and User-ID components of Palo Alto Networks PAN-OS by failing to verify the integrity of the Kerberos key distribution center KDC before authenticating users. This affects all forms of authentication that use ...

PAN-OS: Panorama SD WAN arbitrary file creation

An external control of filename vulnerability in the SD WAN component of Palo Alto Networks PAN-OS Panorama allows an authenticated administrator to send a request that results in the creation and write of an arbitrary file on all firewalls managed by the Panorama. In some cases this results in...

PAN-OS: Panorama context switch session cookie disclosure

A cleartext transmission of sensitive information vulnerability in Palo Alto Networks PAN-OS Panorama that discloses an authenticated PAN-OS administrator's PAN-OS session cookie. When an administrator issues a context switch request into a managed firewall with an affected PAN-OS Panorama versio...

PAN-OS: Predictable temporary file vulnerability

A predictable temporary file vulnerability in PAN-OS allows a local authenticated user with shell access to corrupt arbitrary system files affecting the integrity of the system. This issue affects: All versions of PAN-OS 7.1 and 8.0; PAN-OS 8.1 versions earlier than 8.1.13; PAN-OS 9.0 versions...

PAN-OS: OS injection vulnerability in PAN-OS management server

An OS Command Injection vulnerability in PAN-OS management server allows authenticated users to inject and execute arbitrary shell commands with root privileges. This issue affects: All versions of PAN-OS 7.1 and 8.0; PAN-OS 8.1 versions earlier than 8.1.14; PAN-OS 9.0 versions earlier than 9.0.7...

PAN-OS: GlobalProtect Portal PHP session fixation vulnerability

The GlobalProtect Portal feature in PAN-OS does not set a new session identifier after a successful user login, which allows session fixation attacks, if an attacker is able to control a user's session ID. This issue affects: All PAN-OS 7.1 and 8.0 versions; PAN-OS 8.1 versions earlier than 8.1.1...

PAN-OS: Panorama: XML external entity reference ('XXE') vulnerability leads the to information leak

Improper restriction of XML external entity reference 'XXE' vulnerability in Palo Alto Networks Panorama management service allows remote unauthenticated attackers with network access to the Panorama management interface to read arbitrary files on the system. This issue affects: All versions of...