CVE Vulnerabilities

CVE-2020-2018

Improper Authentication

Published: May 13, 2020 | Modified: Jun 23, 2020
CVSS 3.x
9
CRITICAL
Source:
NVD
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H
CVSS 2.x
9.3 HIGH
AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C
RedHat/V2
RedHat/V3
Ubuntu

An authentication bypass vulnerability in the Panorama context switching feature allows an attacker with network access to a Panoramas management interface to gain privileged access to managed firewalls. An attacker requires some knowledge of managed firewalls to exploit this issue. This issue does not affect Panorama configured with custom certificates authentication for communication between Panorama and managed devices. This issue affects: PAN-OS 7.1 versions earlier than 7.1.26; PAN-OS 8.1 versions earlier than 8.1.12; PAN-OS 9.0 versions earlier than 9.0.6; All versions of PAN-OS 8.0.

Weakness

When an actor claims to have a given identity, the product does not prove or insufficiently proves that the claim is correct.

Affected Software

Name Vendor Start Version End Version
Pan-os Paloaltonetworks 7.1.0 (including) 7.1.26 (excluding)
Pan-os Paloaltonetworks 8.0.0 (including) 8.0.20 (including)
Pan-os Paloaltonetworks 8.1.0 (including) 8.1.12 (excluding)
Pan-os Paloaltonetworks 9.0.0 (including) 9.0.6 (excluding)

Potential Mitigations

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