Command Injection Vulnerability

2012-04-2723:30:00

Palo Alto Networks Product Security Incident Response Team

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CVSS2

Attack Vector

NETWORK

Attack Complexity

LOW

Authentication

NONE

Confidentiality Impact

COMPLETE

Integrity Impact

COMPLETE

Availability Impact

COMPLETE

AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

EPSS

0.004

Percentile

72.4%

JSON

A vulnerability exists whereby an unauthenticated user can inject commands as root on the device. (Ref #30088)
This vulnerability can result in arbitrary command execution, and can result in total compromise of the device.
This issue affects PAN-OS 4.0.3 and earlier; PAN-OS 3.1.9 and earlier.

Work around:
This issue affects the management interface of the device. Security appliance management best practices dictate that the management interface be isolated and strictly limited only to security administration personnel.