CVE-2020-2040

A buffer overflow vulnerability in PAN-OS allows an unauthenticated attacker to disrupt system processes and potentially execute arbitrary code with root privileges by sending a malicious request to the Captive Portal or Multi-Factor Authentication interface. This issue impacts: All versions of PAN-OS 8.0; PAN-OS 8.1 versions earlier than PAN-OS 8.1.15; PAN-OS 9.0 versions earlier than PAN-OS 9.0.9; PAN-OS 9.1 versions earlier than PAN-OS 9.1.3.

Recent assessments:

wvu-r7 at September 10, 2020 4:18pm UTC reported:

Not enough is known about this vulnerability, but if an unauthenticated attacker can knock out a PAN-OS device, that could cause severe network disruption. RCE would be even worse. Note that this affects only the Captive Portal and Multi-Factor Authentication interfaces.

Assessed Attacker Value: 3
Assessed Attacker Value: 3Assessed Attacker Value: 2