CVE-2023-6795Medium

CVE-2023-6795 PAN-OS: OS Command Injection Vulnerability in the Web Interface

Published
December 13, 2023
Last Modified
December 13, 2023

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CVE-2023-6795 →

📋 Description

An OS command injection vulnerability in Palo Alto Networks PAN-OS software enables an authenticated administrator to disrupt system processes and potentially execute arbitrary code with limited privileges on the firewall.

🎯 Affected products3

  • PAN-OS
  • Prisma Access
  • Cloud NGFW

✅ Remediation

This issue is fixed in PAN-OS 8.1.24-h1, PAN-OS 9.0.17, PAN-OS 9.1.12, PAN-OS 10.0.9, PAN-OS 10.1.3, and all later PAN-OS versions. Please note that customers impacted by the PAN-OS root and default certificate expiration issue must carefully select the fixed version of PAN-OS they upgrade their devices to when addressing this vulnerability to not reintroduce the certificate issue. More information and support for the certificate expiration issue in PAN-OS is available at https://live.paloaltonetworks.com/t5/customer-advisories/emergency-update-required-pan-os-root-and-default-certificate/ta-p/564672. Workarounds and mitigations: 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 the Best Practices for Securing Administrative Access in the PAN-OS technical documentation at https://docs.paloaltonetworks.com/best-practices.

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