PAN-OS OS Command Injection Vulnerability Exploited in the Wild (CVE-2024-3400) (Operation MidnightEclipse)

Attackers are exploiting a command injection vulnerability in Palo Alto Networks PAN-OS software. Tracked as CVE-2024-3400, the vulnerability has been given a critical severity rating and a CVSS score of 10. Successful exploitation of the vulnerability may allow an attacker to execute arbitrary code with root privileges on the firewall. The vulnerability exists in the … Continue reading “PAN-OS OS Command Injection Vulnerability Exploited in the Wild (CVE-2024-3400) (Operation MidnightEclipse)”

Palo Alto Networks (PAN-OS) Reflected Amplification Denial-of-Service (DoS) Vulnerability (CVE-2022-0028)

Palo Alto has released a security advisory to address an actively exploited, high-severity vulnerability (CVE-2022-0028) affecting PAN-OS, the operating system used by the company’s networking hardware products. The vulnerability is a PAN-OS URL filtering policy misconfiguration vulnerability that could allow a network-based attacker to conduct reflected and amplified TCP denial-of-service (RDoS) attacks. The advisory claims … Continue reading “Palo Alto Networks (PAN-OS) Reflected Amplification Denial-of-Service (DoS) Vulnerability (CVE-2022-0028)”

Palo Alto Networks PAN-OS GlobalProtect Portal and Gateway Interfaces Memory Corruption Vulnerability (CVE-2021-3064)

Palo Alto Networks (PAN) released an update addressing the vulnerability CVE-2021-3064. This vulnerability was discovered and disclosed by Randori. This vulnerability affects PAN firewalls that use the GlobalProtect Portal VPN. This VPN allows for unauthenticated remote code execution on susceptible product installations.     The zero-day vulnerability has a severity rating of 9.8. The vulnerability chain … Continue reading “Palo Alto Networks PAN-OS GlobalProtect Portal and Gateway Interfaces Memory Corruption Vulnerability (CVE-2021-3064)”

PAN-OS Multiple Vulnerabilities

On November 11, 2020, Palo Alto Networks released advisories addressing several vulnerabilities in PAN-OS. These vulnerabilities are of High and Medium severity.   About the security bugs CVE-2020-2048: System proxy passwords may be logged in clear text while viewing system stateThis issue is addressed in PAN-140157. Information disclosure through log file vulnerability exists where the … Continue reading “PAN-OS Multiple Vulnerabilities”

PAN-OS Buffer overflow vulnerability (CVE-2020-2040)

Within a span of three months, one more critical vulnerability with a score of 10.0 has been observed in PAN-OS devices. When a Captive Portal or Multi-factor authentication interface is enabled on PAN-OS devices, it is considered to be vulnerable to critical buffer overflow vulnerability. This vulnerability is classified as CWE-120 and assigned CVE-2020-2040, on … Continue reading “PAN-OS Buffer overflow vulnerability (CVE-2020-2040)”

Palo Alto Networks PAN-OS:Authentication Bypass in SAML Authentication Vulnerability(PAN-148988)

Summary:   A critical advisory was released by Palo Alto Networks for PAN-OS. PAN OS is the software that runs all Palo Alto Networks next-generation firewalls.   Advisory Link: https://security.paloaltonetworks.com/CVE-2020-2021   Description:   Authentication Bypass vulnerability was found in SAML(Security Assertion Markup Language) Authentication. An unauthenticated network-based attacker can access protected resources due to improper verification of signatures in PAN-OS SAML authentication.    SAML Workflow  SAML … Continue reading “Palo Alto Networks PAN-OS:Authentication Bypass in SAML Authentication Vulnerability(PAN-148988)”

PAN-OS Remote Root Code Execution : CVE-2017-15944

A remote code execution vulnerability has been discovered in the PAN-OS. The vulnerability has been assigned CVE-2017-15944. By exploiting this vulnerability an attacker can achieve arbitrary code execution in root context. The target is the web based management interface provided by the device for configuration and maintenance. The vulnerable versions are PAN-OS before 6.1.19, 7.0.x before 7.0.19, … Continue reading “PAN-OS Remote Root Code Execution : CVE-2017-15944”