CVE-2020-2042

HIGH

PAN-OS 10.0.0 - Authenticated Stack-based Buffer Overflow

Title source: llm
STIX 2.1

Description

A buffer overflow vulnerability in the PAN-OS management web interface allows authenticated administrators to disrupt system processes and potentially execute arbitrary code with root privileges. This issue impacts only PAN-OS 10.0 versions earlier than PAN-OS 10.0.1.

References (1)

Core 1
Core References
Vendor Advisory x_refsource_misc
https://security.paloaltonetworks.com/CVE-2020-2042

Scores

CVSS v3 7.2
EPSS 0.0230
EPSS Percentile 81.1%
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-120 CWE-121
Status published
Products (1)
paloaltonetworks/pan-os 10.0.0 - 10.0.1
Published Sep 09, 2020
Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026