CVE-2020-2037High

CVE-2020-2037 PAN-OS: OS command injection vulnerability in the management web interface

Published
September 9, 2020
Last Modified
February 12, 2021

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CVE-2020-2037 →

📋 Description

An OS Command Injection vulnerability in the PAN-OS management interface that allows authenticated administrators to execute arbitrary OS commands with root privileges.

This issue impacts: PAN-OS 8.1 versions earlier than PAN-OS 8.1.16; PAN-OS 9.0 versions earlier than PAN-OS 9.0.10; PAN-OS 9.1 versions earlier than PAN-OS 9.1.3.

🎯 Affected products1

  • PAN-OS

✅ Remediation

This issue is fixed in PAN-OS 8.1.16, PAN-OS 9.0.10, PAN-OS 9.1.3, and all later PAN-OS versions. Workarounds and mitigations: Until PAN-OS software is upgraded to a fixed version, enabling signatures for Unique Threat ID 59971 on traffic destined for the GlobalProtect portal, gateway, or VPN will block attacks against CVE-2020-2037. This issue impacts the PAN-OS management web interface but you can mitigate the impact of this issue by following best practices for securing the PAN-OS management web interface. Please review the Best Practices for Securing Administrative Access in the PAN-OS technical documentation, available at https://docs.paloaltonetworks.com/best-practices.

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