CVE-2012-6595 Command Injection Vulnerability

Palo Alto Networks Security Advisories / CVE-2012-6595

CVE-2012-6595 Command Injection Vulnerability

Urgency N/A

Severity 8.4 · HIGH

Response Effort N/A

Recovery N/A

Value Density N/A

Attack Vector LOCAL

Attack Complexity LOW

Attack Requirements NONE

Automatable N/A

User Interaction NONE

Product Confidentiality HIGH

Product Integrity HIGH

Product Availability HIGH

Privileges Required NONE

Subsequent Confidentiality HIGH

Subsequent Integrity HIGH

Subsequent Availability HIGH

CVE JSON CSAF

Published 2012-04-27

Updated 2012-04-27

Reference 34595, PAN-SA-2012-0006

Description

A vulnerability exists whereby an authenticated user can inject arbitrary shell commands using the device management command line interface. (Ref #34595)

This vulnerability can result in arbitrary command execution, and can result in total compromise of the device. The attacker must still be an authenticated administrator of the device.

This issue affects PAN-OS 4.1.1 and earlier; PAN-OS 4.0.8 and earlier; PAN-OS 3.0.x is not affected.

Product Status

Versions	Affected	Unaffected
PAN-OS 4.1	<= 4.1.1	>= 4.1.2
PAN-OS 4.0	<= 4.0.8	>= 4.0.9

Severity: HIGH, Suggested Urgency: N/A

CVSS-B: 8.4 (CVSS:4.0/AV:L/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:H/VI:H/VA:H/SC:H/SI:H/SA:H)

Weakness Type

CWE-78 Improper Neutralization of Special Elements used in an OS Command ('OS Command Injection')

Solution

PAN-OS 4.1.2 and later. PAN-OS 4.0.9 and later.

Workarounds and Mitigations

This issue affects the management interface of the device. Security appliance management best practices dictate that the management interface be isolated and strictly limited only to security administration personnel.