vulnerability

Palo Alto Networks PAN-SA-2016-0015: Cron local privilege escalation

Severity
7
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:L/Au:S/C:C/I:C/A:C)
Published
Jul 14, 2016
Added
Oct 11, 2016
Modified
Feb 18, 2025

Description

Palo Alto Networks firewalls use the cron infrastructure to perform household system cleanup at regular intervals. Due to an error in user input normalization, a file locally created by an end user and placed in a specific directory could be executed in a higher privilege context (Ref. 93612).

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