CVE-2020-2040

HIGH

Description

A buffer overflow vulnerability in PAN-OS allows an unauthenticated attacker to disrupt system processes and potentially execute arbitrary code with root privileges by sending a malicious request to the Captive Portal or Multi-Factor Authentication interface. This issue impacts: All versions of PAN-OS 8.0; PAN-OS 8.1 versions earlier than PAN-OS 8.1.15; PAN-OS 9.0 versions earlier than PAN-OS 9.0.9; PAN-OS 9.1 versions earlier than PAN-OS 9.1.3.

References

https://security.paloaltonetworks.com/CVE-2020-2040

Details

Source: MITRE

Published: 2020-09-09

Updated: 2020-09-15

Type: CWE-120

Risk Information

CVSS v2.0

Base Score: 10

Vector: AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

Impact Score: 10

Exploitability Score: 10

Severity: HIGH

CVSS v3.0

Base Score: 9.8

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

Impact Score: 5.9

Exploitability Score: 3.9

Severity: CRITICAL

Vulnerable Software

Configuration 1

cpe:2.3:o:paloaltonetworks:pan-os:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* versions from 8.0.0 to 8.0.20 (inclusive)

cpe:2.3:o:paloaltonetworks:pan-os:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

Tenable Plugins

View all (1 total)

ID	Name	Product	Family	Severity
140516	Palo Alto Networks PAN-OS 8.0.x < 8.1.15 / 9.0.x < 9.0.9 / 9.1.x < 9.1.3 Buffer Overflow	Nessus	Palo Alto Local Security Checks	critical