What is CVE-2017-7217?

CVE-2017-7217 is a security advisory published by Palo Alto Networks Security Advisories with Medium severity. CVE-2017-7217 Tampering of temporary export files in the Management Web Interface

Which CVE IDs does CVE-2017-7217 cover?

CVE-2017-7217 covers the following CVE IDs: CVE-2017-7217. Each CVE has its own detail page on EchelonGraph Pulse with the synthesized EG score.

Which products are affected by CVE-2017-7217?

CVE-2017-7217 affects 1 product, including: PAN-OS.

CVE-2017-7217Medium

CVE-2017-7217 Tampering of temporary export files in the Management Web Interface

Vendor

Palo Alto Networks Security Advisories

Published

April 10, 2017

Last Modified

April 10, 2017

🔗 CVE IDs covered (1)

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📋 Description

A vulnerability exists in the Management Web Interface that could allow an attacker to tamper with export files. The Management Web Interface does not properly validate specific request parameters which can potentially allow arbitrary data to be written to export files. (Ref # PAN- 70436 / CVE-2017-7217) Successfully exploiting this issue would require an attacker to be authenticated. Tampering of files is limited to temporary files used for exporting This issue affects PAN-OS 7.0.13 and earlier, PAN-OS 7.1.8 and earlier

🎯 Affected products1

PAN-OS

✅ Remediation

PAN-OS 7.0.14 and later, PAN-OS 7.1.9 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-2017-7217