PT-2020-15242 · Palo Alto Networks · Pan-Os

Published 2020-05-13 · Updated 2020-05-15 · CVE-2020-2016

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v2.0

8.5

High

Base vector

AV:N/AC:M/Au:S/C:C/I:C/A:C

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions PAN-OS versions prior to 7.1.26 PAN-OS versions prior to 8.1.13 PAN-OS versions prior to 9.0.6 PAN-OS 8.0 versions

Description A race condition due to insecure creation of a file in a temporary directory allows for root privilege escalation from a limited linux user account. This issue enables an attacker who has escaped the restricted shell as a low privilege administrator to escalate privileges to become root user.

Recommendations For PAN-OS 7.1 versions, update to version 7.1.26 or later. For PAN-OS 8.1 versions, update to version 8.1.13 or later. For PAN-OS 9.0 versions, update to version 9.0.6 or later. For PAN-OS 8.0 versions, there is no information about a newer version that contains a fix for this vulnerability.

Race Condition

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-362

CWE-377

Related Identifiers

CVE-2020-2016

Affected Products

Pan-Os

References · 3

• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2020-2016 · Security Note
• https://security.paloaltonetworks.com/CVE-2020-2016 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2020-2016 · Vendor Advisory