CVE-2020-1995

PAN-OS: Management server rasmgr denial of service

At a glance

Severity: MEDIUM 4.9
EPSS: EPSS 1.15 % · percentile 67 (2026-10-27)
State: PUBLISHED
Published: 2020-05-13
Updated: 2024-09-17
Assigner: palo_alto
NVD status: Modified

Description

A NULL pointer dereference vulnerability in Palo Alto Networks PAN-OS allows an authenticated administrator to send a request that causes the rasmgr daemon to crash. Repeated attempts to send this request result in denial of service to all PAN-OS services by restarting the device and putting it into maintenance mode. This issue affects: PAN-OS 9.1 versions earlier than 9.1.2.

Scores

Version	Score	Vector	Scored by
CVSS 3.1	MEDIUM 4.9	CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H	palo_alto
CVSS 3.1	MEDIUM 4.9	CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H	NVD · psirt@paloaltonetworks.com (Secondary)
CVSS 3.1	MEDIUM 4.9	CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H	NVD · nvd@nist.gov (Primary)
CVSS 2.0	MEDIUM 6.8	AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:N/I:N/A:C	NVD · nvd@nist.gov (Primary)

Weaknesses (CWE)

CWE-476

European references

ENISA EUVD · EUVD-2020-12785
GCVE · GCVE-0-2020-1995

CERT-FR advisories

CERTFR-2020-AVI-290 — Multiples vulnérabilités dans Palo Alto PAN-OS et GlobalProtect · cert.ssi.gouv.fr

Affected configurations (NVD CPE)

cpe:2.3:o:paloaltonetworks:pan-os:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* ≥ 9.1.0 < 9.1.2

Affected products

Product	Versions
Palo Alto Networks · PAN-OS	affected 9.1 < 9.1.2

References

https://security.paloaltonetworks.com/CVE-2020-1995

Sources

Source	Licence
CVE List (CVEProject cvelistV5)	CVE Program Terms of Use
EPSS (FIRST.org)	FIRST — attribution requested
ENISA EUVD	ENISA — reproduction authorised, source acknowledged
CERT-FR (ANSSI)	Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0
NVD (NIST) via fkie-cad/nvd-json-data-feeds	Public domain — this product uses data from the NVD API but is not endorsed or certified by the NVD