Permissions, Privileges, and Access Controls in Palo Alto PAN-OS - CVE-2016-9151

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Permissions, Privileges, and Access Controls in Palo Alto PAN-OS - CVE-2016-9151

Published: November 19, 2016 / Updated: July 20, 2020


Vulnerability identifier: #VU31449
CSH Severity: Low
CVSS v4.0: CVSS:4.0/AV:L/AC:L/AT:N/PR:L/UI:N/VC:H/VI:H/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:P/U:Clear
CVE-ID: CVE-2016-9151
CWE-ID: CWE-264
Exploitation vector: Local access
Exploit availability: Public exploit is available
Vendor: Palo Alto Networks, Inc.
Affected software:
Palo Alto PAN-OS

Detailed vulnerability description

The vulnerability allows a local authenticated user to execute arbitrary code.

Palo Alto Networks PAN-OS before 5.0.20, 5.1.x before 5.1.13, 6.0.x before 6.0.15, 6.1.x before 6.1.15, 7.0.x before 7.0.11, and 7.1.x before 7.1.6 allows local users to gain privileges via crafted values of unspecified environment variables.


How to mitigate CVE-2016-9151

Install update from vendor's website.

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