CVE-2020-2016

high

Description

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.

References

https://security.paloaltonetworks.com/CVE-2020-2016

Details

Source: MITRE

Published: 2020-05-13

Updated: 2020-05-15

Type: CWE-362

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 8.5

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

Impact Score: 10

Exploitability Score: 6.8

Severity: HIGH

CVSS v3

Base Score: 7

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

Impact Score: 5.9

Exploitability Score: 1

Severity: HIGH