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PAN-OS - Authentication Bypass in Web

Issued: 
Monday, 17 October, 2022
Last Revision: 
Monday, 17 October, 2022
Vendor: 
Product: 
Severity Level: 
Summary: 

Palo Alto Networks notifies about a high-severity authentication bypass vulnerability affecting the web interface of its PAN-OS 8.1 software. 

 

The security hole is tracked as CVE-2022-0030, According to the company, a network-based attacker with specific knowledge of the targeted firewall or Panorama appliance can impersonate an existing PAN-OS admin and perform privileged actions.

 

PAN-OS 8.1.24 and later versions patch the vulnerability, but the vendor noted that PAN-OS 8.1 has reached end of life (EOL) and is supported only on certain firewalls and appliances until they reach EOL status as well.

 

As per Palo Alto Networks they are not aware of any attacks exploiting the vulnerability

 

CVE/Vulnerability

Description 

CVSS 3.1 Base Score 

Exploitable

CVE-2022-0030

Authentication Bypass in Web Interface

8.1

No

 

Table 1: Vulnerability details

 

 

 

CVE/Vulnerability

Product(s) Detail 

 

 

CVE-2022-0030

Prior to Pan-OS 8.1.24

 

     

 

 

Table 2: Vulnerable versions

 

Recommendation: 

we recommend to follow the “Palo- alto recommendation, to update to the latest version .