CVE-2021-3062

Summary

An improper access control vulnerability in PAN-OS software enables an attacker with authenticated access to GlobalProtect portals and gateways to connect to the EC2 instance metadata endpoint for VM-Series firewalls hosted on Amazon AWS. Exploitation of this vulnerability enables an attacker to perform any operations allowed by the EC2 role in AWS. This issue impacts: PAN-OS 8.1 versions earlier than PAN-OS 8.1.20 VM-Series firewalls; PAN-OS 9.1 versions earlier than PAN-OS 9.1.11 VM-Series firewalls; PAN-OS 9.0 versions earlier than PAN-OS 9.0.14 VM-Series firewalls; PAN-OS 10.0 versions earlier than PAN-OS 10.0.8 VM-Series firewalls. Prisma Access customers are not impacted by this issue.

Affected Software

VendorProductVersion RangeStatus
Palo Alto NetworksPAN-OS10.1.*unaffected
Palo Alto NetworksPAN-OS9.1 < 9.1.11affected
Palo Alto NetworksPAN-OS8.1 < 8.1.20affected
Palo Alto NetworksPAN-OS9.0 < 9.0.14affected
Palo Alto NetworksPAN-OS10.0 < 10.0.8affected
Palo Alto NetworksPrisma Access2.1 allunaffected
Palo Alto NetworksPrisma Access2.2 allunaffected

Weaknesses

  • CWE-284: CWE-284 Improper Access Control

Workarounds

There are no known workarounds for this issue.

ADP Enrichment

CVE Program Container

Additional References

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