FKIE_CVE-2020-2008

Vulnerability from fkie_nvd - Published: 2020-05-13 19:15 - Updated: 2026-06-17 03:11
Severity
7.2 (High) - CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
7.2 (High) - CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Summary
An OS command injection and external control of filename vulnerability in Palo Alto Networks PAN-OS allows authenticated administrators to execute code with root privileges or delete arbitrary system files and impact the system's integrity or cause a denial of service condition. This issue affects: All versions of PAN-OS 7.1 and 8.0; PAN-OS 8.1 versions earlier than 8.1.14.
References
psirt@paloaltonetworks.comhttps://security.paloaltonetworks.com/CVE-2020-2008Vendor Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://security.paloaltonetworks.com/CVE-2020-2008Vendor Advisory
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
paloaltonetworks pan-os *
paloaltonetworks pan-os *
paloaltonetworks pan-os *
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