CVE-2020-2006

PAN-OS: Buffer overflow in management server payload parser

At a glance

Severity: HIGH 7.2
EPSS: EPSS 1.90 % · percentile 80 (2026-10-27)
State: PUBLISHED
Published: 2020-05-13
Updated: 2024-09-16
Assigner: palo_alto
NVD status: Modified

Description

A stack-based buffer overflow vulnerability in the management server component of PAN-OS that allows an authenticated user to potentially execute arbitrary code with root privileges. This issue affects: All versions of PAN-OS 7.1 and 8.0; PAN-OS 8.1 versions earlier than 8.1.14.

Scores

Version	Score	Vector	Scored by
CVSS 3.1	HIGH 7.2	CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H	palo_alto
CVSS 3.1	HIGH 7.2	CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H	NVD · psirt@paloaltonetworks.com (Secondary)
CVSS 3.1	HIGH 8.8	CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H	NVD · nvd@nist.gov (Primary)
CVSS 2.0	HIGH 9.0	AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:C/I:C/A:C	NVD · nvd@nist.gov (Primary)

Weaknesses (CWE)

European references

ENISA EUVD · EUVD-2020-22034
GCVE · GCVE-0-2020-2006

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:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* ≥ 7.1.0 ≤ 7.1.26
cpe:2.3:o:paloaltonetworks:pan-os:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* ≥ 8.0.0 ≤ 8.0.20
cpe:2.3:o:paloaltonetworks:pan-os:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* ≥ 8.1.0 ≤ 8.1.13

Affected products

Product	Versions
Palo Alto Networks · PAN-OS	affected 7.1.* ; affected 8.0.* ; affected 8.1 < 8.1.14

References

https://security.paloaltonetworks.com/CVE-2020-2006

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