CVEvulnerability

CVE-2020-1998

8.8 HIGH Published 2020-05-13 Modified 2026-06-17 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2020-05-13
Last modified
2026-06-17
Assigner
[email protected]
CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
5.4 MEDIUM — CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:N
CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
8.8 HIGH — CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
6.5 MEDIUM — AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:P/I:P/A:P
Weaknesses
CWE-285, CWE-863

Description

An improper authorization vulnerability in PAN-OS that mistakenly uses the permissions of local linux users instead of the intended SAML permissions of the account when the username is shared for the purposes of SSO authentication. This can result in authentication bypass and unintended resource access for the 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; PAN-OS 9.1 versions earlier than 9.1.1; All versions of PAN-OS 8.0.

Affected configurations

• paloaltonetworks pan-os (>= 7.1.0 < 7.1.26) • paloaltonetworks pan-os (>= 8.0.0 <= 8.0.20) • paloaltonetworks pan-os (>= 8.1.0 < 8.1.13) • paloaltonetworks pan-os (>= 9.0.0 < 9.0.6) • paloaltonetworks pan-os (>= 9.1.0 < 9.1.1)

Related

Weakness · CWE (2)

  • CWE-285 Improper Authorization weakness
  • CWE-863 Incorrect Authorization weakness

References