CVE-2020-2018

CRITICAL

PAN-OS 7.1.0-7.1.25 - Authentication Bypass via Panorama Context Switching

Title source: llm
STIX 2.1

Description

An authentication bypass vulnerability in the Panorama context switching feature allows an attacker with network access to a Panorama's management interface to gain privileged access to managed firewalls. An attacker requires some knowledge of managed firewalls to exploit this issue. This issue does not affect Panorama configured with custom certificates authentication for communication between Panorama and managed devices. This issue affects: PAN-OS 7.1 versions earlier than 7.1.26; PAN-OS 8.1 versions earlier than 8.1.12; PAN-OS 9.0 versions earlier than 9.0.6; All versions of PAN-OS 8.0.

References (1)

Core 1
Core References
Vendor Advisory x_refsource_misc
https://security.paloaltonetworks.com/CVE-2020-2018

Scores

CVSS v3 9.0
EPSS 0.0032
EPSS Percentile 55.1%
Attack Vector NETWORK
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H

Details

CWE
CWE-287
Status published
Products (1)
paloaltonetworks/pan-os 7.1.0 - 7.1.26
Published May 13, 2020
Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026