CVE-2016-9151 Local Privilege Escalation
Description
Palo Alto Networks firewalls do not properly validate certain environment variables which can potentially allow executing code with higher privileges (Ref # PAN-61104/100499/CVE-2016-9151)
A potential attacker with local shell access could manipulate arbitrary environment variables which could result in a process running with higher privileges.
This issue affects PAN-OS 5.0.19 and earlier; PAN-OS 5.1.12 and earlier; PAN-OS 6.0.14 and earlier; PAN-OS 6.1.14 and earlier; PAN-OS 7.0.10 and earlier; PAN-OS 7.1.5 and earlier
Product Status
| Versions | Affected | Unaffected |
|---|---|---|
| PAN-OS 7.1 | <= 7.1.5 | >= 7.1.6 |
| PAN-OS 7.0 | <= 7.0.10 | >= 7.0.11 |
| PAN-OS 6.1 | <= 6.1.14 | >= 6.1.15 |
| PAN-OS 6.0 | <= 6.0.14 | >= 6.0.15 |
| PAN-OS 5.1 | <= 5.1.12 | >= 5.1.13 |
| PAN-OS 5.0 | <= 5.0.19 | >= 5.0.20 |
Severity: HIGH
CVSSv3.0 Base Score: 7.8 (CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H)
Weakness Type
Solution
PAN-OS 5.0.20 and later; PAN-OS 5.1.13 and later; PAN-OS 6.0.15 and later; PAN-OS 6.1.15 and later; PAN-OS 7.0.11 and later; PAN-OS 7.1.6 and later
Workarounds and Mitigations
Exploitation of this privilege escalation is restricted to local users. Potential attackers would have to first obtain a shell on the device before they could attempt to escalate privileges through this vulnerability.