Vulnerability · Published Mar 11, 2020 · Assigned by palo_alto

CVE-2020-1980PAN-OS: Shell injection vulnerability in PAN-OS CLI allows execution of shell commands

High 7.8

In plain English

A high-severity command injection in PAN-OS from Palo Alto Networks. There are no confirmed reports of exploitation so far. The chance it is exploited in the next 30 days is estimated at 0.6% (higher than 50% of all known vulnerabilities).

Severity (CVSS 3.1)7.8High
Exploit odds (30 days)0.6%top 49.8% of all CVEs
Exploited in the wildNo reportsnot in CISA KEV
Attack toolingNoneno public tooling known

Official description

A shell command injection vulnerability in the PAN-OS CLI allows a local authenticated user to escape the restricted shell and escalate privileges. This issue affects only PAN-OS 8.1 versions earlier than PAN-OS 8.1.13. This issue does not affect PAN-OS 7.1, PAN-OS 9.0, or later PAN-OS versions. This issue is fixed in PAN-OS 8.1.13, and all later versions.

Affected products (as reported)

VendorProductVersions
Palo Alto Networks PAN-OS 8.1 < 8.1.138.1 !>= 8.1.139.0 !>= 9.0.07.1 !>= 7.1.09.1 !>= 9.1.0

Weakness: CWE-77 · Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

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