PAN-OS: Panorama External control of file vulnerability leads to privilege escalation

Published 6 y ago 2020-05-13 · modified 4 mo ago 2026-06-17 · JSON

CVSS

8.1

v3.1 · CNA

CISA KEV

not known exploited

EPSS

1.4%

percentile 72%

Public exploits

none known

An external control of path and data vulnerability in the Palo Alto Networks PAN-OS Panorama XSLT processing logic that allows an unauthenticated user with network access to PAN-OS management interface to write attacker supplied file on the system and elevate privileges. This issue affects: All PAN-OS 7.1 Panorama and 8.0 Panorama versions; PAN-OS 8.1 versions earlier than 8.1.12 on Panorama; PAN-OS 9.0 versions earlier than 9.0.6 on Panorama.

Exploit prediction (EPSS)

1.37% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 72% of all scored CVEs.

CVSS scores

Assigned by	Version	Score	Vector
CNA	3.1	8.1	`CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H`
CNA	3.1	8.1	`CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H`
NVD	3.1	9.8	`CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H`
NVD	2.0	7.5	`AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P`

Affected products

Palo Alto Networks PAN-OS

Classification

Weakness

CWE-123 Write-what-where Condition
CWE-787 Out-of-bounds Write

Technology feeds

Palo Alto PAN-OS (RSS, critical only)

References

security.paloaltonetworks.com /CVE-2020-2001 · x_refsource_MISC, x_transferred

Sources

CVE List: CVE-2020-2001
NVD: CVE-2020-2001

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