CVE-2021-3050

PAN-OS: OS Command Injection Vulnerability in Web Interface

At a glance

Severity: HIGH 8.8
EPSS: EPSS 1.78 % · percentile 78 (2026-10-27)
State: PUBLISHED
Published: 2021-08-11
Updated: 2024-09-16
Assigner: palo_alto
NVD status: Modified

Description

An OS command injection vulnerability in the Palo Alto Networks PAN-OS web interface enables an authenticated administrator to execute arbitrary OS commands to escalate privileges. This issue impacts: PAN-OS 9.0 version 9.0.10 through PAN-OS 9.0.14; PAN-OS 9.1 version 9.1.4 through PAN-OS 9.1.10; PAN-OS 10.0 version 10.0.7 and earlier PAN-OS 10.0 versions; PAN-OS 10.1 version 10.1.0 through PAN-OS 10.1.1. Prisma Access firewalls and firewalls running PAN-OS 8.1 versions are not impacted by this issue.

Scores

Version	Score	Vector	Scored by
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	palo_alto
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 · 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)

CWE-78

European references

ENISA EUVD · EUVD-2021-26402
GCVE · GCVE-0-2021-3050

CERT-FR advisories

CERTFR-2021-AVI-621 — Multiples vulnérabilités dans les produits Palo Alto Networks · cert.ssi.gouv.fr

Affected configurations (NVD CPE)

cpe:2.3:o:paloaltonetworks:pan-os:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* ≥ 9.0.0 < 9.0.15
cpe:2.3:o:paloaltonetworks:pan-os:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* ≥ 9.1.0 < 9.1.11
cpe:2.3:o:paloaltonetworks:pan-os:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* ≥ 10.0.0 < 10.0.8
cpe:2.3:o:paloaltonetworks:pan-os:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* ≥ 10.1.0 < 10.1.2

Affected products

Product	Versions
Palo Alto Networks · PAN-OS	unaffected 8.1.* ; affected 9.0.10 < 9.0* ; affected 9.1.4 < 9.1* ; affected 10.0.0 < 10.0* ; affected 10.1.0 < 10.1*

References

https://security.paloaltonetworks.com/CVE-2021-3050

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