cve-2020-2040
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2020-09-09 16:45
Modified
2024-09-16 22:40
Severity ?
9.8 (Critical) - CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Summary
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
psirt@paloaltonetworks.comhttps://security.paloaltonetworks.com/CVE-2020-2040Vendor Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://security.paloaltonetworks.com/CVE-2020-2040Vendor Advisory
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
Palo Alto Networks PAN-OS Version: 8.0.*
Version: 9.0   < 9.0.9
Version: 9.1   < 9.1.3
Version: 8.1   < 8.1.15
Patch: 10.0.0
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