Informational: Impact of the Samba Vulnerability CVE-2021-44142 on PAN-OS

The Palo Alto Networks Product Security Assurance team has evaluated the Samba CVE-2021-44142 vulnerability.

Though PAN-OS software contains Samba packages, there isn’t a Samba server that runs in PAN-OS software that could enable an attacker to exploit this vulnerability, which means there are no scenarios that enable successful exploitation of this vulnerability in PAN-OS software.

To reiterate, there is no known security impact for this vulnerability on PAN-OS or Prisma Access appliances.

Work around:
No work around available.