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CVE-2020-2016

PAN-OS: Temporary file race condition vulnerability in PAN-OS leads to local privilege escalation PUBLISHED

Description (CNA)

A race condition due to insecure creation of a file in a temporary directory vulnerability in PAN-OS allows for root privilege escalation from a limited linux user account. This allows an attacker who has escaped the restricted shell as a low privilege administrator, possibly by exploiting another vulnerability, to escalate privileges to become root user. This issue affects: PAN-OS 7.1 versions earlier than 7.1.26; PAN-OS 8.1 versions earlier than 8.1.13; PAN-OS 9.0 versions earlier than 9.0.6; All versions of PAN-OS 8.0.

Affected (CNA)

Vendor / productVersions
Palo Alto Networks / PAN-OSaffected 8.0.*; affected 7.1 before 7.1.26; affected 8.1 before 8.1.13; affected 9.0 before 9.0.6; unaffected 9.1.0 before 9.1*

CWE

CWE-377

References

ADP enrichment

CVE

No English description supplied.