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UK Cyber Defence
VulnerabilityModified

CVE-2020-2038

An OS Command Injection vulnerability in the PAN-OS management interface that allows authenticated administrators to execute arbitrary OS commands with root privileges.

EXPLOITHIGH 7.2EPSS 86.2%

Does this matter?

EPSS puts the probability of exploitation in the next 30 days at 86.2%, higher than 100% of all known CVEs. Patch or mitigate before the next change window.

Description

An OS Command Injection vulnerability in the PAN-OS management interface that allows authenticated administrators to execute arbitrary OS commands with root privileges. This issue impacts: PAN-OS 9.0 versions earlier than 9.0.10; PAN-OS 9.1 versions earlier than 9.1.4; PAN-OS 10.0 versions earlier than 10.0.1.

CVSS 3.1
7.2 HIGHCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
EPSS
86.20% probability · 100th percentile
Public exploits
1 in Exploit-DB · first 9 August 2022
CISA KEV
Not listed
Weakness
CWE-78
Affected
paloaltonetworks/pan-os
Source
psirt@paloaltonetworks.com
EPSS trend
0%45%90%26 October 2026: 86.20%26 October 202626 October 2026

EPSS 86.2% since 26 October 2026; no change recorded yet. The dashed line is the ten per cent mark our analysts treat as “patch before the next change window”. Points are recorded when the score first appears and whenever it moves by a percentage point or more.

Public exploits (1)

Entries in Exploit-DB that cite this CVE. Links go to the Exploit-DB page and to the file in the public repository; nothing is hosted here. A verified tick means the Exploit-DB team confirmed the exploit works against the stated version.

EDB-IDTitleTypePublishedVerified
EDB-51005source ↗PAN-OS 10.0 - Remote Code Execution (RCE) (Authenticated)multiple · UnD3sc0n0c1d0remote9 August 2022no

References

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