What is CVE-2016-4971?

CVE-2016-4971 is a security advisory published by Palo Alto Networks Security Advisories with High severity. CVE-2016-4971 WGET Vulnerability

Which CVE IDs does CVE-2016-4971 cover?

CVE-2016-4971 covers the following CVE IDs: CVE-2016-4971. Each CVE has its own detail page on EchelonGraph Pulse with the synthesized EG score.

Which products are affected by CVE-2016-4971?

CVE-2016-4971 affects 1 product, including: PAN-OS.

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CVE-2016-4971 WGET Vulnerability

Vendor

Palo Alto Networks Security Advisories

Published

May 23, 2017

Last Modified

May 23, 2017

🔗 CVE IDs covered (1)

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📋 Description

The wget library has been found to contain a vulnerability (CVE 2016-4971). wget allows remote servers to write to arbitrary files by redirecting a request from HTTP to a crafted FTP resource. Palo Alto Networks software makes use of the vulnerable library and may be affected. (Ref # PAN-59677/ CVE 2016-4971) Successfully exploiting this issue would require an attacker to be authenticated on the Management Interface. This issue affects PAN-OS 6.1.16 and earlier, PAN-OS 7.0.14 and earlier, PAN-OS 7.1.9 and earlier, PAN-OS 8.0

🎯 Affected products1

PAN-OS

✅ Remediation

PAN-OS 6.1.17 and later, PAN-OS 7.0.15 and later, PAN-OS 7.1.10 and later, PAN-OS 8.0.1 and later Workarounds and mitigations: Palo Alto Networks recommends to implement best practice by allowing web interface access only to a dedicated management network. Additionally, restrict the set of IP addresses to a subset of authorized sources that you allow to interact with the management network.

🔗 References (1)

advisoryhttps://security.paloaltonetworks.com/CVE-2016-4971