CVEvulnerability

CVE-2020-1981

7.8 HIGH Published 2020-03-11 Modified 2026-06-17 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2020-03-11
Last modified
2026-06-17
Assigner
[email protected]
CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
7.0 HIGH — CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/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])
7.2 HIGH — AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C
Weaknesses
CWE-377, CWE-668

Description

A predictable temporary filename vulnerability in PAN-OS allows local privilege escalation. This issue allows a local attacker who bypassed the restricted shell to execute commands as a low privileged user and gain root access on the PAN-OS hardware or virtual appliance. This issue affects only PAN-OS 8.1 versions earlier than PAN-OS 8.1.13. This issue does not affect PAN-OS 7.1, PAN-OS 9.0, or later PAN-OS versions.

Affected configurations

• paloaltonetworks pan-os (>= 8.1.0 < 8.1.13)

Related

Weakness · not in database (1)

Weakness · CWE (1)

  • CWE-668 Exposure of Resource to Wrong Sphere weakness

References