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CVE-2020-2016

Published: May 13, 2020

Modified: Sep 16, 2024

PUBLISHED

CVSS v3.1

7.0

HIGH

Description

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 another vulnerability, to escalate privileges to become root user. 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 earlier than 9.0.6; All versions of PAN-OS 8.0.

VendorProductVersions

Palo Alto Networks

PAN-OS

affected
8.0.*
affected
7.1 - < 7.1.26
affected
8.1 - < 8.1.13
affected
9.0 - < 9.0.6
unaffected
9.1.0 - < 9.1*

Weaknesses (CWE)

CWE-377

CVSS v3.1 Details

CVSS v3.1 Vector

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

Attack Vector

Local

Attack Complexity

High

Privileges Required

Low

User Interaction

None

Scope

Unchanged

Confidentiality

High

Integrity

High

Availability

High

References

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