CVE-2020-1996 - CVE House

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Status published Medium CVE-2020-1996

PAN-OS: Panorama management server log injection

5.3 CVSS

Vulnerability Description

A missing authorization vulnerability in the management server component of PAN-OS Panorama allows a remote unauthenticated user to inject messages into the management server ms.log file. This vulnerability can be leveraged to obfuscate an ongoing attack or fabricate log entries in the ms.log file This issue affects: All versions of PAN-OS 7.1 and 8.0; PAN-OS 8.1 versions earlier than 8.1.14; PAN-OS 9.0 versions earlier than 9.0.9.

Impact Analysis

Refer to official advisory for detailed impact metrics.

Remediation

Ensure systems are updated to the latest vendor-supplied patch levels.

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Credits & Attribution

The following person or organization is credited with identifying this vulnerability, as recorded in the NVD database:

This issue was found by Ben Nott of Palo Alto Networks during internal security review.

References

https://security.paloaltonetworks.com/CVE-2020-1996

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Affected Vendor

Palo Alto Networks

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Affected Software

PAN-OS

Vulnerable Versions:

7.1.*, 8.0.*, 8.1, 9.0

Timeline

Official Publish: May 13th, 2020

Last Modified: September 17th, 2024

Added to House: July 21st, 2026

CVSS Vectors

V3: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N

Weaknesses (CWE)

MITRE ATT&CK TTPs

T1190 Exploit Public-Facing Application

T1068 Exploitation for Privilege Escalation

Privilege Escalation

T1078 Valid Accounts

T1531 Account Access Removal