CVE-2021-3062: An improper access control vulnerability in PAN-OS software enables an attacker with authenticated access to GlobalProtect portals and gateways to connect to…

PriorityP352high8.8CVSS 3.1

AVNACLPRLUINSUCHIHAH

EPSS

0.70%

48.4th percentile

An improper access control vulnerability in PAN-OS software enables an attacker with authenticated access to GlobalProtect portals and gateways to connect to the EC2 instance metadata endpoint for VM-Series firewalls hosted on Amazon AWS. Exploitation of this vulnerability enables an attacker to perform any operations allowed by the EC2 role in AWS. This issue impacts: PAN-OS 8.1 versions earlier than PAN-OS 8.1.20 VM-Series firewalls; PAN-OS 9.1 versions earlier than PAN-OS 9.1.11 VM-Series firewalls; PAN-OS 9.0 versions earlier than PAN-OS 9.0.14 VM-Series firewalls; PAN-OS 10.0 versions earlier than PAN-OS 10.0.8 VM-Series firewalls. Prisma Access customers are not impacted by this issue.

Affected

10 ranges

Vendor	Product	Version range	Fixed in
palo_alto_networks	pan-os	>= 10.0 < 10.0.8	10.0.8
palo_alto_networks	pan-os	>= 8.1 < 8.1.20	8.1.20
palo_alto_networks	pan-os	>= 9.0 < 9.0.14	9.0.14
palo_alto_networks	pan-os	>= 9.1 < 9.1.11	9.1.11
paloalto	pan-os	—	—
paloalto	prisma_access	—	—
paloaltonetworks	pan-os	>= 10.0.0 < 10.0.8	10.0.8
paloaltonetworks	pan-os	>= 8.1.0 < 8.1.20	8.1.20
paloaltonetworks	pan-os	>= 9.0.0 < 9.0.14	9.0.14
paloaltonetworks	pan-os	>= 9.1.0 < 9.1.11	9.1.11

CVSS provenance

nvdv3.18.8HIGHCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

nvdv2.06.0MEDIUMAV:N/AC:M/Au:S/C:P/I:P/A:P

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