CVE detail

CVE-2020-2018 — CVE-2020-2018

Published 2020-05-13 · Modified 2026-06-17 · Vendor paloaltonetworks · Product pan-os · Source nvd

CRITICAL

severity

CVSS-derived band

9.0

CVSS v3

0–10 scale

0.0132

EPSS probability

exploitation probability, 30d

68.0%

EPSS percentile

percentile vs all CVEs

NOT LISTED

CISA KEV

known exploited catalog

Description

An authentication bypass vulnerability in the Panorama context switching feature allows an attacker with network access to a Panorama's management interface to gain privileged access to managed firewalls. An attacker requires some knowledge of managed firewalls to exploit this issue. This issue does not affect Panorama configured with custom certificates authentication for communication between Panorama and managed devices. This issue affects: PAN-OS 7.1 versions earlier than 7.1.26; PAN-OS 8.1 versions earlier than 8.1.12; PAN-OS 9.0 versions earlier than 9.0.6; All versions of PAN-OS 8.0.

Remediation

No vendor-published fix data in our corpus for this CVE. Check the references below or the vendor's PSIRT / security advisories page.

References

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