Description
A format string vulnerability in the Varrcvr daemon of PAN-OS on PA-7000 Series devices with a Log Forwarding Card (LFC) allows remote attackers to crash the daemon creating a denial of service condition or potentially execute code with root privileges. This issue affects Palo Alto Networks PAN-OS 9.0 versions before 9.0.7; PAN-OS 9.1 versions before 9.1.2 on PA-7000 Series devices with an LFC installed and configured. This issue requires WildFire services to be configured and enabled. This issue does not affect PAN-OS 8.1 and earlier releases. This issue does not affect any other PA Series firewalls.
Published: 2020-04-08
Score: 8.1 High
EPSS: 2.1% Low
KEV: No
Impact: n/a
Action: n/a
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Remediation

Vendor Solution

This issue is fixed in PAN-OS 9.0.7, PAN-OS 9.1.2 and all later versions.


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Source ID Title
EUVD EUVD EUVD-2020-12782 A format string vulnerability in the Varrcvr daemon of PAN-OS on PA-7000 Series devices with a Log Forwarding Card (LFC) allows remote attackers to crash the daemon creating a denial of service condition or potentially execute code with root privileges. This issue affects Palo Alto Networks PAN-OS 9.0 versions before 9.0.7; PAN-OS 9.1 versions before 9.1.2 on PA-7000 Series devices with an LFC installed and configured. This issue requires WildFire services to be configured and enabled. This issue does not affect PAN-OS 8.1 and earlier releases. This issue does not affect any other PA Series firewalls.
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Paloaltonetworks Pa-7050 Pa-7080 Pan-os
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Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: palo_alto

Published:

Updated: 2024-09-17T03:44:20.914Z

Reserved: 2019-12-04T00:00:00.000Z

Link: CVE-2020-1992

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Status : Modified

Published: 2020-04-08T19:15:14.213

Modified: 2024-11-21T05:11:48.233

Link: CVE-2020-1992

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