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CVE-2020-2034

PAN-OS: OS command injection vulnerability in GlobalProtect portal

High8.1EPSS 7.2%
Published
Updated
Reserved
Assigned by
palo_alto

Description

An OS Command Injection vulnerability in the PAN-OS GlobalProtect portal allows an unauthenticated network based attacker to execute arbitrary OS commands with root privileges. An attacker requires some knowledge of the firewall to exploit this issue. This issue can not be exploited if GlobalProtect portal feature is not enabled. This issue impacts PAN-OS 9.1 versions earlier than PAN-OS 9.1.3; PAN-OS 8.1 versions earlier than PAN-OS 8.1.15; PAN-OS 9.0 versions earlier than PAN-OS 9.0.9; all versions of PAN-OS 8.0 and PAN-OS 7.1. Prisma Access services are not impacted by this vulnerability.

Timeline

  1. ID reserved

    By palo_alto

  2. · 7 months later

    Published

  3. · 4 years later

    Record updated

Changes after publication (a new score, a public exploit, EPSS crossing 1, 10 or 50 %, leaving KEV) are kept since November 2026; earlier ones are not known.

Scores

CVSS scores of CVE-2020-2034, by who scored it
Scored byCVSSScoreVector
palo_altoCNA (assigner)3.1High8.1CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
NVDNVD · Modified3.1High8.1CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
7.2% · top 5.7% of all CVEs (7 Nov 2026)
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The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: High 8.1.

Weakness

Affected products

  • Palo Alto Networks · PAN-OS

    • affected 8.0.*
    • affected 7.1.*
    • affected 9.1 – < 9.1.3
    • affected 9.0 – < 9.0.9
    • affected 8.1 – < 8.1.15

What to do

Solution: This issue is fixed in PAN-OS 8.1.15, PAN-OS 9.0.9, PAN-OS 9.1.3, and all later PAN-OS versions.

Solution: PAN-OS 7.1 and PAN-OS 8.0 are end-of-life (as of June 30, 2020 and October 31, 2019 respectively) and are no longer covered by our Product Security Assurance policies.

References (1)

Sources

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