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CVE-2020-2018

Published: May 13, 2020

Modified: Sep 16, 2024

PUBLISHED

CVSS v3.1

9.0

CRITICAL

Description

An authentication bypass vulnerability in the Panorama context switching feature allows an attacker with network access to a Panorama's management interface to gain privileged access to managed firewalls. An attacker requires some knowledge of managed firewalls to exploit this issue. This issue does not affect Panorama configured with custom certificates authentication for communication between Panorama and managed devices. This issue affects: PAN-OS 7.1 versions earlier than 7.1.26; PAN-OS 8.1 versions earlier than 8.1.12; 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 - < 8.1.12
affected
9.0 - < 9.0.6

Weaknesses (CWE)

CWE-287

CVSS v3.1 Details

CVSS v3.1 Vector

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

Attack Vector

Network

Attack Complexity

High

Privileges Required

None

User Interaction

None

Scope

Changed

Confidentiality

High

Integrity

High

Availability

High

References

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