vulnerability
PAN-OS: Information exposure in Ethernet data frame construction (Etherleak)
Severity | CVSS | Published | Added | Modified |
---|---|---|---|---|
3 | (AV:A/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N) | Jan 13, 2021 | Jan 14, 2021 | Jan 21, 2021 |
Description
Padding bytes in Ethernet packets on PA-200, PA-220, PA-500, PA-800, PA-2000 Series, PA-3000 Series, PA-3200 Series, PA-5200 Series, and PA-7000 Series firewalls are not cleared before the data frame is created. This leaks a small amount of random information from the firewall memory into the Ethernet packets. An attacker on the same Ethernet subnet as the PAN-OS firewall is able to collect potentially sensitive information from these packets. This issue is also known as Etherleak and is detected by security scanners as CVE-2003-0001. This issue impacts: PAN-OS 8.1 version earlier than PAN-OS 8.1.18; PAN-OS 9.0 versions earlier than PAN-OS 9.0.12; PAN-OS 9.1 versions earlier than PAN-OS 9.1.5.
Solution(s)

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