CVE-2020-1990 PAN-OS: Buffer overflow in the management server

Palo Alto Networks Security Advisories / CVE-2020-1990

CVE-2020-1990 PAN-OS: Buffer overflow in the management server

Severity 7.2 · HIGH

Attack Vector NETWORK

Scope UNCHANGED

Attack Complexity LOW

Confidentiality Impact HIGH

Privileges Required HIGH

Integrity Impact HIGH

User Interaction NONE

Availability Impact HIGH

NVD JSON

Published 2020-04-08

Updated 2020-04-08

Reference PAN-121319

Discovered internally

Description

A stack-based buffer overflow vulnerability in the management server component of PAN-OS allows an authenticated user to upload a corrupted PAN-OS configuration and potentially execute code with root privileges.

This issue affects Palo Alto Networks PAN-OS 8.1 versions before 8.1.13; 9.0 versions before 9.0.7.

This issue does not affect PAN-OS 7.1.

Product Status

Versions	Affected	Unaffected
PAN-OS 9.0	< 9.0.7	>= 9.0.7
PAN-OS 8.1	< 8.1.13	>= 8.1.13
PAN-OS 7.1	None	7.1.*

Severity: HIGH

CVSSv3.1 Base Score: 7.2 (CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H)

Weakness Type

CWE-121 Stack-based Buffer Overflow

Solution

This issue is fixed in PAN-OS 8.1.13, PAN-OS 9.0.7 and all later versions.

Workarounds and Mitigations

These issues affect the management interface of PAN-OS and are strongly mitigated by following best practices for securing the PAN-OS management interface. Our best practices guidelines reduce the exposure of the management interface to potential attackers. Please review the Best Practices for Securing Administrative Access in the PAN-OS 9.0 technical documentation, available at: https://docs.paloaltonetworks.com/pan-os/9-0/pan-os-admin/getting-started/best-practices-for-securing-administrative-access.html.

Acknowledgments

This issue was discovered by Nicholas Newsom of Palo Alto Networks during internal security review.

Timeline

2020-04-08 Initial publication