CVE-2020-2029

Summary

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 of PAN-OS 8.0; PAN-OS 7.1 versions earlier than PAN-OS 7.1.26; PAN-OS 8.1 versions earlier than PAN-OS 8.1.13.

Affected Software

VendorProductVersion RangeStatus
Palo Alto NetworksPAN-OS8.0.*affected
Palo Alto NetworksPAN-OS7.1 < 7.1.26affected
Palo Alto NetworksPAN-OS8.1 < 8.1.13affected
Palo Alto NetworksPAN-OS9.0.0 < 9.0*unaffected
Palo Alto NetworksPAN-OS9.1.0 < 9.1*unaffected

Weaknesses

  • CWE-78: CWE-78 OS Command Injection

Workarounds

This issue affects the management interface of PAN-OS and you can mitigate the impact of this issue by following best practices for securing the PAN-OS management interface. Please review the Best Practices for Securing Administrative Access in the PAN-OS technical documentation, available at https://docs.paloaltonetworks.com/best-practices.

ADP Enrichment

CVE Program Container

Additional References

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