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GHSA-PHHF-M45Q-VCXW

Vulnerability from github – Published: 2022-05-24 17:17 – Updated: 2022-05-24 17:17

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CVE-2020-2016 (GCVE-0-2020-2016)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2020-05-13 19:07 – Updated: 2024-09-16 23:31

Title

PAN-OS: Temporary file race condition vulnerability in PAN-OS leads to local privilege escalation

Summary

A race condition due to insecure creation of a file in a temporary directory vulnerability in PAN-OS allows for root privilege escalation from a limited linux user account. This allows an attacker who has escaped the restricted shell as a low privilege administrator, possibly by exploiting another vulnerability, to escalate privileges to become root 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; All versions of PAN-OS 8.0.

Severity

7 (High)


                        
                          CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

CWE

CWE-377 - Insecure Temporary File

Assigner

palo_alto CNA under the mitre root

CNA scorecard A 95/100 over 96 records in the last 180 days details

References

1 reference

URL	Tags
https://security.paloaltonetworks.com/CVE-2020-2016	x_refsource_MISC

Impacted products

1 product

Vendor	Product	Version
Palo Alto Networks	PAN-OS	Affected: 8.0.* Affected: 7.1 , < 7.1.26 (custom) Affected: 8.1 , < 8.1.13 (custom) Affected: 9.0 , < 9.0.6 (custom) Unaffected: 9.1.0 , < 9.1* (custom)

Date Public

2020-05-13 00:00

Credits

Palo Alto Networks thanks the UK's National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) for discovering and reporting this issue. Palo Alto Networks thanks the NCC Group for finding this issue independently during a contracted PAN-OS security assessment.

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