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

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

Severity
4
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)
Published
07/14/2016
Created
07/25/2018
Added
10/11/2016
Modified
06/17/2020

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).

Solution(s)

  • palo-alto-networks-pan-os-upgrade-5-0
  • palo-alto-networks-pan-os-upgrade-5-1
  • palo-alto-networks-pan-os-upgrade-6-0
  • palo-alto-networks-pan-os-upgrade-6-1
  • palo-alto-networks-pan-os-upgrade-7-0
  • palo-alto-networks-pan-os-upgrade-7-1

References

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