CVE-2020-1990

HIGH

PAN-OS 8.1.0-8.1.12 - Authenticated Stack-based Buffer Overflow via Corrupted Configuration Upload

Title source: llm
STIX 2.1

Description

A stack-based buffer overflow vulnerability in the management server component of PAN-OS allows an authenticated user to upload a corrupted PAN-OS configuration and potentially execute code with root privileges. This issue affects Palo Alto Networks PAN-OS 8.1 versions before 8.1.13; 9.0 versions before 9.0.7. This issue does not affect PAN-OS 7.1.

References (1)

Core 1
Core References
Vendor Advisory x_refsource_misc
https://security.paloaltonetworks.com/CVE-2020-1990

Scores

CVSS v3 7.2
EPSS 0.0138
EPSS Percentile 80.5%
Attack Vector NETWORK
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Details

CWE
CWE-121 CWE-787
Status published
Products (1)
paloaltonetworks/pan-os 8.1.0 - 8.1.13
Published Apr 08, 2020
Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026