CVE-2020-1980

HIGH

PAN-OS 8.1.0-8.1.12 - Authenticated OS Command Injection via CLI

Title source: llm
STIX 2.1

Description

A shell command injection vulnerability in the PAN-OS CLI allows a local authenticated user to escape the restricted shell and escalate privileges. This issue affects only PAN-OS 8.1 versions earlier than PAN-OS 8.1.13. This issue does not affect PAN-OS 7.1, PAN-OS 9.0, or later PAN-OS versions. This issue is fixed in PAN-OS 8.1.13, and all later versions.

References (1)

Core 1
Core References
Vendor Advisory x_refsource_confirm
https://security.paloaltonetworks.com/CVE-2020-1980

Scores

CVSS v3 7.8
EPSS 0.0027
EPSS Percentile 50.4%
Attack Vector LOCAL
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Details

CWE
CWE-78 CWE-77
Status published
Products (1)
paloaltonetworks/pan-os 8.1.0 - 8.1.13
Published Mar 11, 2020
Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026