FKIE_CVE-2020-2037

Vulnerability from fkie_nvd - Published: 2020-09-09 17:15 - 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 vulnerability in the PAN-OS management interface that allows authenticated administrators to execute arbitrary OS commands with root privileges. This issue impacts: PAN-OS 8.1 versions earlier than PAN-OS 8.1.16; PAN-OS 9.0 versions earlier than PAN-OS 9.0.10; PAN-OS 9.1 versions earlier than PAN-OS 9.1.3.
References
psirt@paloaltonetworks.comhttps://security.paloaltonetworks.com/CVE-2020-2037Vendor Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://security.paloaltonetworks.com/CVE-2020-2037Vendor Advisory
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
paloaltonetworks pan-os *
paloaltonetworks pan-os *
paloaltonetworks pan-os *
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