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CVE-2020-1992

Published: Apr 8, 2020

Modified: Sep 17, 2024

PUBLISHED

CVSS v3.1

8.1

HIGH

Description

A format string vulnerability in the Varrcvr daemon of PAN-OS on PA-7000 Series devices with a Log Forwarding Card (LFC) allows remote attackers to crash the daemon creating a denial of service condition or potentially execute code with root privileges. This issue affects Palo Alto Networks PAN-OS 9.0 versions before 9.0.7; PAN-OS 9.1 versions before 9.1.2 on PA-7000 Series devices with an LFC installed and configured. This issue requires WildFire services to be configured and enabled. This issue does not affect PAN-OS 8.1 and earlier releases. This issue does not affect any other PA Series firewalls.

VendorProductVersions

Palo Alto Networks

PAN-OS

affected
9.0 - < 9.0.7
affected
9.1 - < 9.1.2

Palo Alto Networks

PAN-OS

unaffected
8.1.*
unaffected
8.0.*
unaffected
7.1.*

Weaknesses (CWE)

CWE-134

CVSS v3.1 Details

CVSS v3.1 Vector

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Attack Vector

Network

Attack Complexity

High

Privileges Required

None

User Interaction

None

Scope

Unchanged

Confidentiality

High

Integrity

High

Availability

High

References

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