cve-2020-1990
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2020-04-08 18:41
Modified
2024-09-17 01:16
Severity ?
7.2 (High) - CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Summary
A stack-based buffer overflow vulnerability in the management server component of PAN-OS allows an authenticated user to upload a corrupted PAN-OS configuration and potentially execute code with root privileges. This issue affects Palo Alto Networks PAN-OS 8.1 versions before 8.1.13; 9.0 versions before 9.0.7. This issue does not affect PAN-OS 7.1.
References
psirt@paloaltonetworks.comhttps://security.paloaltonetworks.com/CVE-2020-1990Vendor Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://security.paloaltonetworks.com/CVE-2020-1990Vendor Advisory
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Palo Alto Networks PAN-OS Version: 8.1   < 8.1.13
Version: 9.0   < 9.0.7
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