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CVE-2020-2016

A race condition due to insecure creation of a file in a temporary directory vulnerability in PAN-OS allows for root privilege escalation from a limited linux user account. This allows an attacker who has escaped the restricted shell as a low privilege administrator, possibly by exploiting another vulnerability, to escalate privileges to become root user. This issue affects: PAN-OS 7.1 versions earlier than 7.1.26; PAN-OS 8.1 versions earlier than 8.1.13; PAN-OS 9.0 versions earlier than 9.0.6; All versions of PAN-OS 8.0.

  • Published: May 13, 2020
  • Updated: Apr 13, 2023
  • CVE: CVE-2020-2016
  • Severity: High
  • Exploit:

CVSS v3:

  • Severity: High
  • Score: 7
  • AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

CVSS v2:

  • Severity: High
  • Score: 8.5
  • AV:N/AC:M/Au:S/C:C/I:C/A:C

CWEs:

Software From Fixed in
paloaltonetworks / pan-os 9.0.0 9.0.6
paloaltonetworks / pan-os 8.1.0 8.1.13
paloaltonetworks / pan-os 8.0.0 8.0.20.x
paloaltonetworks / pan-os 7.1.0 7.1.26