What is CVE-2016-9151?

CVE-2016-9151 is a security advisory published by Palo Alto Networks Security Advisories with High severity. CVE-2016-9151 Local Privilege Escalation

Which CVE IDs does CVE-2016-9151 cover?

CVE-2016-9151 covers the following CVE IDs: CVE-2016-9151. Each CVE has its own detail page on EchelonGraph Pulse with the synthesized EG score.

Which products are affected by CVE-2016-9151?

CVE-2016-9151 affects 1 product, including: PAN-OS.

CVE-2016-9151High

CVE-2016-9151 Local Privilege Escalation

Vendor

Palo Alto Networks Security Advisories

Published

November 17, 2016

Last Modified

November 17, 2016

🔗 CVE IDs covered (1)

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📋 Description

Palo Alto Networks firewalls do not properly validate certain environment variables which can potentially allow executing code with higher privileges (Ref # PAN-61104/100499/CVE-2016-9151) A potential attacker with local shell access could manipulate arbitrary environment variables which could result in a process running with higher privileges. This issue affects PAN-OS 5.0.19 and earlier; PAN-OS 5.1.12 and earlier; PAN-OS 6.0.14 and earlier; PAN-OS 6.1.14 and earlier; PAN-OS 7.0.10 and earlier; PAN-OS 7.1.5 and earlier

🎯 Affected products1

PAN-OS

✅ Remediation

PAN-OS 5.0.20 and later; PAN-OS 5.1.13 and later; PAN-OS 6.0.15 and later; PAN-OS 6.1.15 and later; PAN-OS 7.0.11 and later; PAN-OS 7.1.6 and later Workarounds and mitigations: Exploitation of this privilege escalation is restricted to local users. Potential attackers would have to first obtain a shell on the device before they could attempt to escalate privileges through this vulnerability.

🔗 References (1)

advisoryhttps://security.paloaltonetworks.com/CVE-2016-9151