CVE-2020-2038

PAN-OS: OS command injection vulnerability in the management web interface

At a glance

Severity: HIGH 7.2
EPSS: EPSS 86.20 % · percentile 100 (2026-10-27)
State: PUBLISHED
Published: 2020-09-09
Updated: 2024-09-16
Assigner: palo_alto
NVD status: Modified

Description

An OS Command Injection vulnerability in the PAN-OS management interface that allows authenticated administrators to execute arbitrary OS commands with root privileges. This issue impacts: PAN-OS 9.0 versions earlier than 9.0.10; PAN-OS 9.1 versions earlier than 9.1.4; PAN-OS 10.0 versions earlier than 10.0.1.

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 7.2	CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/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)

CWE-78

European references

ENISA EUVD · EUVD-2020-22064
GCVE · GCVE-0-2020-2038

CERT-FR advisories

CERTFR-2020-AVI-566 — Multiples vulnérabilités dans Palo Alto Networks PAN-OS · cert.ssi.gouv.fr

Affected configurations (NVD CPE)

cpe:2.3:o:paloaltonetworks:pan-os:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* ≥ 9.0.0 < 9.0.10
cpe:2.3:o:paloaltonetworks:pan-os:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* ≥ 9.1.0 < 9.1.4
cpe:2.3:o:paloaltonetworks:pan-os:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* ≥ 10.0.0 < 10.0.1

Affected products

Product	Versions
Palo Alto Networks · PAN-OS	unaffected 8.1.* ; affected 10.0 < 10.0.1 ; affected 9.0 < 9.0.10 ; affected 9.1 < 9.1.4

References

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