What is PAN-SA-2016-0016?

PAN-SA-2016-0016 is a security advisory published by Palo Alto Networks Security Advisories with High severity. PAN-SA-2016-0016 Web Interface Privilege Escalation

Why does PAN-SA-2016-0016 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-2016-0016?

PAN-SA-2016-0016 affects 1 product, including: PAN-OS.

PAN-SA-2016-0016HighDisclosed before NVD

PAN-SA-2016-0016 Web Interface Privilege Escalation

Vendor

Palo Alto Networks Security Advisories

Published

July 15, 2016

Last Modified

July 15, 2016

📋 Description

Palo Alto Networks Panorama administrators have the ability to assign predefined permissions to users created on PAN-OS. A read-only user with CLI access could elevate web interface privileges. (Ref. 88191) A user could elevate privileges by impersonating another user with higher permissions. This issue affects PAN-OS 5.0.18 and earlier; PAN-OS 5.1.11 and earlier; PAN-OS 6.0.13 and earlier; PAN-OS 6.1.10 and earlier; PAN-OS 7.0.4 and earlier

🎯 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 6.1.11 and later; PAN-OS 7.0.5 and later Workarounds and mitigations: Customers running versions of Panorama affected by this issue could create a custom admin role that does not allow CLI access and to avoid any privilege escalation. Firewalls running PAN-OS are not affected by this issue.

🔗 References (1)

advisoryhttps://security.paloaltonetworks.com/PAN-SA-2016-0016