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CVE-2020-2008 (GCVE-0-2020-2008)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2020-05-13 19:07 – Updated: 2024-09-16 17:08
VLAI
Title
PAN-OS: OS command injection or arbitrary file deletion vulnerability
Summary
An OS command injection and external control of filename vulnerability in Palo Alto Networks PAN-OS allows authenticated administrators to execute code with root privileges or delete arbitrary system files and impact the system's integrity or cause a denial of service condition. This issue affects: All versions of PAN-OS 7.1 and 8.0; PAN-OS 8.1 versions earlier than 8.1.14.
CWE
  • CWE-73 - External Control of File Name or Path
  • CWE-78 - OS Command Injection
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version CPE status
Palo Alto Networks PAN-OS Affected: 8.0.*
Affected: 7.1.*
Affected: 8.1 , < 8.1.14 (custom)
Unaffected: 9.0.0 , < 9.0* (custom)
Unaffected: 9.1.0 , < 9.1* (custom)
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Date Public
2020-05-13 00:00
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Related by attack behaviour

Vulnerabilities whose description is nearest to this one in the vector space of the CIRCL/vulnerability-attack-technique-biencoder model. This is a similarity search over the bi-encoder space (plain cosine), not a classification, and it has no measured accuracy.


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