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PAN-OS on PA-7000 Series: Varrcvr daemon network-based denial of service or privilege escalation

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PAN-OS on PA-7000 Series: Varrcvr daemon network-based denial of service or privilege escalation

Severity
9
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C)
Published
04/08/2020
Created
06/18/2020
Added
06/18/2020
Modified
10/05/2020

Description

A format string vulnerability in the Varrcvr daemon of PAN-OS on PA-7000 Series devices with a Log Forwarding Card (LFC) allows remote attackers to crash the daemon creating a denial of service condition or potentially execute code with root privileges. This issue affects Palo Alto Networks PAN-OS 9.0 versions before 9.0.7; PAN-OS 9.1 versions before 9.1.2 on PA-7000 Series devices with an LFC installed and configured. This issue requires WildFire services to be configured and enabled. This issue does not affect PAN-OS 8.1 and earlier releases. This issue does not affect any other PA Series firewalls.

Solution(s)

  • palo-alto-networks-pan-os-upgrade-9-0
  • palo-alto-networks-pan-os-upgrade-9-1

References

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