What is PAN-SA-2016-0015?

PAN-SA-2016-0015 is a security advisory published by Palo Alto Networks Security Advisories with Medium severity. PAN-SA-2016-0015 Cron local privilege escalation

Why does PAN-SA-2016-0015 have no CVE ID yet?

Palo Alto Networks Security Advisories published this advisory directly to customers before NVD assigned a CVE ID. This is the embargo-window disclosure pattern — vendors notify customers on day 0; NVD's public record follows days to weeks later.

Which products are affected by PAN-SA-2016-0015?

PAN-SA-2016-0015 affects 1 product, including: PAN-OS.

PAN-SA-2016-0015MediumDisclosed before NVD

PAN-SA-2016-0015 Cron local privilege escalation

Vendor

Palo Alto Networks Security Advisories

Published

July 14, 2016

Last Modified

July 14, 2016

📋 Description

Palo Alto Networks firewalls use the cron infrastructure to perform household system cleanup at regular intervals. Due to an error in user input normalization, a file locally created by an end user and placed in a specific directory could be executed in a higher privilege context (Ref. 93612). Because no shell access is available to end-users, exploitation of this issue is unlikely. This issue affects PAN-OS 5.0.18 and prior; PAN-OS 5.1.11 and prior; PAN-OS 6.0.13 and prior; PAN-OS 6.1.11 and prior; PAN-OS 7.0.6 and prior; PAN-OS 7.1.1 and prior

🎯 Affected products1

PAN-OS

✅ Remediation

PAN-OS 5.0.19 and later; PAN-OS 5.1.12 and later; PAN-OS 6.0.14 and later; PAN-OS 6.1.12 and later; PAN-OS 7.0.7 and later; PAN-OS 7.1.2 and later Workarounds and mitigations: N/A

🔗 References (1)

advisoryhttps://security.paloaltonetworks.com/PAN-SA-2016-0015