cve-2019-17437
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2019-12-05 14:11
Modified
2024-09-17 04:10
Severity ?
7.8 (High) - CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
EPSS score ?
0.05% (0.11375)
Summary
An improper authentication check in Palo Alto Networks PAN-OS may allow an authenticated low privileged non-superuser custom role user to elevate privileges and become superuser. This issue affects PAN-OS 7.1 versions prior to 7.1.25; 8.0 versions prior to 8.0.20; 8.1 versions prior to 8.1.11; 9.0 versions prior to 9.0.5. PAN-OS version 7.0 and prior EOL versions have not been evaluated for this issue.
References
psirt@paloaltonetworks.comhttps://securityadvisories.paloaltonetworks.com/Home/Detail/159Vendor Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://securityadvisories.paloaltonetworks.com/Home/Detail/159Vendor Advisory
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
Palo Alto Networks PAN-OS Version: 7.1   < 7.1.25
Version: 8.0   < 8.0.20
Version: 8.1   < 8.1.11
Version: 9.0   < 9.0.5
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