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PAN-OS: Memory Corruption Vulnerability in Global Protect Portal and Gateway Interfaces

Issued: 
Thursday, 11 November, 2021
Last Revision: 
Thursday, 11 November, 2021
Vendor: 
Severity Level: 
Summary: 

A memory corruption vulnerability exists in Palo Alto Networks Global-Protect portal and gateway interfaces that enables an unauthenticated network-based attacker to disrupt system processes and potentially execute arbitrary code with root privileges. The attacker must have network access to the Global-Protect interface to exploit this issue.

 

This issue impacts PAN-OS 8.1 versions earlier than PAN-OS 8.1.17.

 

As per Palo Alto Networks, Prisma Access customers are not impacted by this issue.

 

 

CVE

Description 

CVSS 3.1 Score

CVE-2021-3064

Memory Corruption Vulnerability in Global Protect Portal and Gateway Interfaces

9.8

 

 

                                                                                                 Table 1: Vulnerability details

 

 

         CVE 

 

Affected Product(s)

CVE-2021-3064

 

PAN-OS 8.1 (< 8.1.17)

 

 

                                                                                                 Table 2: Vulnerabe Versions

Recommendation: 
  • Enable signatures for Unique Threat IDs 91820 and 91855 on traffic destined for Global Protect portal and gateway interfaces to block attacks against CVE-2021-3064.

 

  • If you don’t use the Global-Protect VPN portion of the Palo Alto firewall, disable it.