CVE-2021-3050High

CVE-2021-3050 PAN-OS: OS Command Injection Vulnerability in Web Interface

Published
August 11, 2021
Last Modified
August 11, 2021

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CVE-2021-3050 →

📋 Description

An OS command injection vulnerability in the Palo Alto Networks PAN-OS web interface enables an authenticated administrator to execute arbitrary OS commands to escalate privileges. This issue impacts: PAN-OS 9.0 version 9.0.10 through PAN-OS 9.0.14; PAN-OS 9.1 version 9.1.4 through PAN-OS 9.1.10; PAN-OS 10.0 version 10.0.7 and earlier PAN-OS 10.0 versions; PAN-OS 10.1 version 10.1.0 through PAN-OS 10.1.1. Prisma Access firewalls and firewalls running PAN-OS 8.1 versions are not impacted by this issue.

🎯 Affected products1

  • PAN-OS

✅ Remediation

We intend to fix this issue in PAN-OS 9.0.15 (ETA November 2021), PAN-OS 9.1.11 (ETA September 2021), PAN-OS 10.0.8 (ETA September 2021), PAN-OS 10.1.2 (ETA September 2021) and all later PAN-OS versions. Workarounds and mitigations: Enable signatures for Unique Threat ID 91439 on traffic destined for the web interface to block attacks against CVE-2021-3050. This issue requires the attacker to have authenticated access to the PAN-OS web interface. You can mitigate the impact of this issue by following best practices for securing the PAN-OS web interface. Please review the Best Practices for Securing Administrative Access in the PAN-OS technical documentation at https://docs.paloaltonetworks.com/best-practices.

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