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Palo Alto PAN-OS Local Privilege Escalation (PAN-SA-2016-0034)
Information
Severity
Severity
Family
Family
CVSSv2 Base
CVSSv2 Base
CVSSv2 Vector
CVSSv2 Vector
Solution Type
Solution Type
Created
Created
Modified
Modified
Summary
Palo Alto Networks firewalls do not properly validate certain environment variables which can potentially allow executing code with higher privileges. A potential attacker with local shell access could manipulate arbitrary environment variables which could result in a process running with higher privileges.
Affected Software
Affected Software
PAN-OS 5.0.19 and earlier, PAN-OS 5.1.12 and earlier, PAN-OS 6.0.14 and earlier, PAN-OS 6.1.14 and earlier, PAN-OS 7.0.10 and earlier, PAN-OS 7.1.5 and earlier
Detection Method
Detection Method
Checks if a vulnerable version is present on the target host.
Solution
Solution
Update to PAN-OS 5.0.20 and later, PAN-OS 5.1.13 and later, PAN-OS 6.0.15 and later, PAN-OS 6.1.15 and later, PAN-OS 7.0.11 and later, PAN-OS 7.1.6 and later