CVE-2021-3045

PAN-OS: OS Command Argument Injection in Web Interface

At a glance

Severity
MEDIUM 4.9
EPSS
EPSS 0.79 % · percentile 56 (2026-10-27)
State
PUBLISHED
Published
Updated
Assigner
palo_alto
NVD status
Modified

Description

An OS command argument injection vulnerability in the Palo Alto Networks PAN-OS web interface enables an authenticated administrator to read any arbitrary file from the file system. This issue impacts: PAN-OS 8.1 versions earlier than PAN-OS 8.1.19; PAN-OS 9.0 versions earlier than PAN-OS 9.0.14; PAN-OS 9.1 versions earlier than PAN-OS 9.1.10. PAN-OS 10.0 and later versions are not impacted.

Scores

VersionScoreVectorScored by
CVSS 3.1MEDIUM 4.9CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:Npalo_alto
CVSS 3.1MEDIUM 4.9CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:NNVD · psirt@paloaltonetworks.com (Secondary)
CVSS 3.1MEDIUM 4.9CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:NNVD · nvd@nist.gov (Primary)
CVSS 2.0MEDIUM 4.0AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:P/I:N/A:NNVD · nvd@nist.gov (Primary)

Weaknesses (CWE)

European references

CERT-FR advisories

Affected configurations (NVD CPE)

Affected products

ProductVersions
Palo Alto Networks · PAN-OSunaffected 10.0.* ; unaffected 10.1.* ; affected 8.1 < 8.1.19 ; affected 9.0 < 9.0.14 ; affected 9.1 < 9.1.10

References

Sources

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