CVEvulnerability
CVE-2020-1979
7.8 HIGH
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2020-03-11
- Last modified
- 2026-06-17
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
- 8.1 HIGH — CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
- CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
- 7.8 HIGH — CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
- CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
- 4.6 MEDIUM — AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
- Weaknesses
- CWE-134
Description
A format string vulnerability in the PAN-OS log daemon (logd) on Panorama allows a network based attacker with knowledge of registered firewall devices and access to Panorama management interfaces to execute arbitrary code, bypassing the restricted shell and escalating privileges. This issue affects only PAN-OS 8.1 versions earlier than PAN-OS 8.1.13 on Panorama. This issue does not affect PAN-OS 7.1, PAN-OS 9.0, or later PAN-OS versions.
Affected configurations
• paloaltonetworks pan-os (< 8.1.13)
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-134 Use of Externally-Controlled Format String weakness
References
- https://security.paloaltonetworks.com/CVE-2020-1979 Vendor Advisory
- https://security.paloaltonetworks.com/CVE-2020-1979 Vendor Advisory