CVEvulnerability
CVE-2021-3054
6.6 MEDIUM
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2021-09-08
- Last modified
- 2026-06-17
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
- 7.2 HIGH — CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
- CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
- 6.6 MEDIUM — CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
- CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
- 8.5 HIGH — AV:N/AC:M/Au:S/C:C/I:C/A:C
- Weaknesses
- CWE-367
Description
A time-of-check to time-of-use (TOCTOU) race condition vulnerability in the Palo Alto Networks PAN-OS web interface enables an authenticated administrator with permission to upload plugins to execute arbitrary code with root user privileges. This issue impacts: PAN-OS 8.1 versions earlier than PAN-OS 8.1.20; PAN-OS 9.0 versions earlier than PAN-OS 9.0.14; PAN-OS 9.1 versions earlier than PAN-OS 9.1.11; PAN-OS 10.0 versions earlier than PAN-OS 10.0.7; PAN-OS 10.1 versions earlier than PAN-OS 10.1.2. This issue does not affect Prisma Access.
Affected configurations
• paloaltonetworks pan-os (>= 8.1.0 < 8.1.20)
• paloaltonetworks pan-os (>= 9.0.0 < 9.0.14)
• paloaltonetworks pan-os (>= 9.1.0 < 9.1.11)
• paloaltonetworks pan-os (>= 10.0.0 < 10.0.7)
• paloaltonetworks pan-os (>= 10.1.0 < 10.1.2)
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-367 Time-of-check Time-of-use (TOCTOU) Race Condition weakness
References
- https://security.paloaltonetworks.com/CVE-2021-3054 Vendor Advisory
- https://security.paloaltonetworks.com/CVE-2021-3054 Vendor Advisory