What is CVE-2019-8912?

CVE-2019-8912 is a security advisory published by Palo Alto Networks Security Advisories with High severity. CVE-2019-8912 Privilege Escalation in PAN-OS

Which CVE IDs does CVE-2019-8912 cover?

CVE-2019-8912 covers the following CVE IDs: CVE-2019-8912. Each CVE has its own detail page on EchelonGraph Pulse with the synthesized EG score.

Which products are affected by CVE-2019-8912?

CVE-2019-8912 affects 1 product, including: PAN-OS.

CVE-2019-8912High

CVE-2019-8912 Privilege Escalation in PAN-OS

Vendor

Palo Alto Networks Security Advisories

Published

July 15, 2019

Last Modified

July 15, 2019

🔗 CVE IDs covered (1)

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📋 Description

Palo Alto Networks is aware of a use-after-free (UAF) vulnerability in the Linux kernel's sockfs_setattr. (Ref: PAN-113631/ CVE-2019-8912) Successful exploitation of this issue may allow an unprivileged local user to escalate their privileges on the system. This issue affects PAN-OS 7.1.23 and earlier, PAN-OS 8.0.17 and earlier, PAN-OS 8.1.8 and earlier, and PAN-OS 9.0.2 and earlier.

🎯 Affected products1

PAN-OS

✅ Remediation

PAN-OS 7.1.24 and later, PAN-OS 8.0.18 and later, PAN-OS 8.1.9 and later, and PAN-OS 9.0.3 and later. Workarounds and mitigations: N/A

🔗 References (1)

advisoryhttps://security.paloaltonetworks.com/CVE-2019-8912