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CVE-2020-2040

Published: Sep 9, 2020

Modified: Sep 16, 2024

PUBLISHED

CVSS v3.1

9.8

CRITICAL

Description

A buffer overflow vulnerability in PAN-OS allows an unauthenticated attacker to disrupt system processes and potentially execute arbitrary code with root privileges by sending a malicious request to the Captive Portal or Multi-Factor Authentication interface. This issue impacts: All versions of PAN-OS 8.0; PAN-OS 8.1 versions earlier than PAN-OS 8.1.15; PAN-OS 9.0 versions earlier than PAN-OS 9.0.9; PAN-OS 9.1 versions earlier than PAN-OS 9.1.3.

VendorProductVersions

Palo Alto Networks

PAN-OS

affected
8.0.*
affected
9.0 - < 9.0.9
affected
9.1 - < 9.1.3
affected
8.1 - < 8.1.15
unaffected
10.0.0 - < 10.0*

Weaknesses (CWE)

CWE-120

CVSS v3.1 Details

CVSS v3.1 Vector

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

Attack Vector

Network

Attack Complexity

Low

Privileges Required

None

User Interaction

None

Scope

Unchanged

Confidentiality

High

Integrity

High

Availability

High

References

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