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CVE PROGRAM SOURCE RECORD8.1 High

CVE-2020-1992

PAN-OS on PA-7000 Series: Varrcvr daemon network-based denial of service or privilege escalation

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Status
Published
Published
Updated
Assigning organization
palo_alto

Description

A format string vulnerability in the Varrcvr daemon of PAN-OS on PA-7000 Series devices with a Log Forwarding Card (LFC) allows remote attackers to crash the daemon creating a denial of service condition or potentially execute code with root privileges. This issue affects Palo Alto Networks PAN-OS 9.0 versions before 9.0.7; PAN-OS 9.1 versions before 9.1.2 on PA-7000 Series devices with an LFC installed and configured. This issue requires WildFire services to be configured and enabled. This issue does not affect PAN-OS 8.1 and earlier releases. This issue does not affect any other PA Series firewalls.

Affected products

Version statuses are supplied by the assigning organization. Consult the original record for detailed ranges and platform conditions.

Palo Alto Networks PAN-OS

  • 9.0 to < 9.0.7affected
  • 9.1 to < 9.1.2affected

Palo Alto Networks PAN-OS

  • 8.1.*unaffected
  • 8.0.*unaffected
  • 7.1.*unaffected

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