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Tracker / CVE-2020-1998

CVE-2020-1998

Medium 5.4

An improper authorization vulnerability in PAN-OS that mistakenly uses the permissions of local linux users instead of the intended SAML permissions of the account when the username is shared for the purposes of SSO authentication. This can result in authentication bypass and unintended resource access for the 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; PAN-OS 9.1 versions earlier than 9.1.1; All versions of PAN-OS 8.0.

Affected products and versions

paloaltonetworks pan-os · 7.1.0 → 7.1.26
paloaltonetworks pan-os · 8.0.0 → 8.0.20
paloaltonetworks pan-os · 8.1.0 → 8.1.13
paloaltonetworks pan-os · 9.0.0 → 9.0.6
paloaltonetworks pan-os · 9.1.0 → 9.1.1

Analysis

This page is not indexable yet.Until it carries original analysis — what it actually exposes, how to check in two minutes whether a system was touched, what to do if it was — the page stays noindex. The database decides that, not the template.

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