CVE-2021-3064 PAN-OS: Memory Corruption Vulnerability in GlobalProtect Portal and Gateway Interfaces
🔗 CVE IDs covered (1)
📋 Description
A memory corruption vulnerability exists in Palo Alto Networks GlobalProtect portal and gateway interfaces that enables an unauthenticated network-based attacker to disrupt system processes and potentially execute arbitrary code with root privileges. The attacker must have network access to the GlobalProtect interface to exploit this issue.
This issue impacts PAN-OS 8.1 versions earlier than PAN-OS 8.1.17.
Prisma Access customers are not impacted by this issue.
🎯 Affected products2
- PAN-OS
- Prisma Access
✅ Remediation
This issue is fixed in PAN-OS 8.1.17 and all later PAN-OS versions. Workarounds and mitigations: Enable signatures for Unique Threat IDs 91820 and 91855 on traffic destined for GlobalProtect portal and gateway interfaces to block attacks against CVE-2021-3064. It is not necessary to enable SSL decryption to detect and block attacks against this issue.