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Severity
Medium
Analysis Summary
CVE-2020-2040
A buffer overflow vulnerability in PAN-OS allows an unauthenticated attacker to disrupt system processes and potentially execute arbitrary code with root privileges by sending a malicious request to the Captive Portal or Multi-Factor Authentication interface.
CVE-2020-2041
An insecure configuration of the appweb daemon of Palo Alto Networks PAN-OS 8.1 allows a remote unauthenticated user to send a specifically crafted request to the device that causes the appweb service to crash. Repeated attempts to send this request result in denial of service to all PAN-OS services by restarting the device and putting it into maintenance mode.
Impact
- Execution of arbitrary code
- Service crash
Affected Vendors
Palo Alto
Remediation
Refer to vendor advisory for the complete list of affected products and their respective patches.