CVE-2020-1980 (GCVE-0-2020-1980)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2020-03-11 18:58 – Updated: 2024-09-16 16:29
VLAI
Title
PAN-OS: Shell injection vulnerability in PAN-OS CLI allows execution of shell commands
Summary
A shell command injection vulnerability in the PAN-OS CLI allows a local authenticated user to escape the restricted shell and escalate privileges. This issue affects only PAN-OS 8.1 versions earlier than PAN-OS 8.1.13. This issue does not affect PAN-OS 7.1, PAN-OS 9.0, or later PAN-OS versions. This issue is fixed in PAN-OS 8.1.13, and all later versions.
Severity
7.8 (High)
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CWE
  • CWE-77 - Improper Neutralization of Special Elements used in a Command ('Command Injection')
Assigner
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
Palo Alto Networks PAN-OS Affected: 8.1 < 8.1.13
Affected: 8.1 !>= 8.1.13
Affected: 9.0 !>= 9.0.0
Affected: 7.1 !>= 7.1.0
Affected: 9.1 !>= 9.1.0
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Date Public
2020-03-11 00:00
Credits
This issue was discovered during an internal security review.
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