Cross-site scripting in Palo Alto PAN-OS - CVE-2018-9335
Published: July 14, 2018
Vulnerability identifier: #VU13869
CSH Severity: Low
CVSS v4: 5.1 [CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:L/UI:P/VC:N/VI:N/VA:N/SC:L/SI:L/SA:N]
CVE-ID: CVE-2018-9335
CWE-ID: CWE-79
Exploitation vector: Remote access
Exploit availability:
No public exploit available
Vulnerability details
The disclosed vulnerability allows a remote authenticated attacker to perform cross-site scripting (XSS) attacks.
The vulnerability exists due to insufficient sanitization of user-supplied data. A remote attacker can trick the victim to follow a specially crafted link and execute arbitrary HTML and script code in user's browser in context of vulnerable website.
Successful exploitation of this vulnerability may allow a remote attacker to steal potentially sensitive information, change appearance of the web page, perform phishing and drive-by-download attacks.
Affected software
Palo Alto PAN-OS
Ubuntu
ovmf (Ubuntu package)
qemu-efi (Ubuntu package)
qemu-efi-aarch64 (Ubuntu package)
qemu-efi-arm (Ubuntu package)
Ubuntu
ovmf (Ubuntu package)
qemu-efi (Ubuntu package)
qemu-efi-aarch64 (Ubuntu package)
qemu-efi-arm (Ubuntu package)
How to mitigate CVE-2018-9335
The vulnerability is fixed in the versions 6.1.21, 7.1.17, 8.0.10, 8.1.2.
Palo Alto PAN-OS - addressed in versions 6.1.21, 7.1.17, 8.0.10, 8.1.2
ovmf (Ubuntu package) - update to Ubuntu Pro
qemu-efi (Ubuntu package) - update to Ubuntu Pro
qemu-efi-aarch64 (Ubuntu package) - update to Ubuntu Pro
qemu-efi-arm (Ubuntu package) - update to Ubuntu Pro
ovmf (Ubuntu package) - update to Ubuntu Pro
qemu-efi (Ubuntu package) - update to Ubuntu Pro
qemu-efi-aarch64 (Ubuntu package) - update to Ubuntu Pro
qemu-efi-arm (Ubuntu package) - update to Ubuntu Pro