High severity7.8NVD Advisory· Published Mar 11, 2020· Updated Jun 17, 2026
CVE-2020-1980
CVE-2020-1980
Description
A shell command injection vulnerability in the PAN-OS CLI allows a local authenticated user to escape the restricted shell and escalate privileges. This issue affects only PAN-OS 8.1 versions earlier than PAN-OS 8.1.13. This issue does not affect PAN-OS 7.1, PAN-OS 9.0, or later PAN-OS versions. This issue is fixed in PAN-OS 8.1.13, and all later versions.
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Affected products
3cpe:2.3:o:paloaltonetworks:pan-os:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*+ 2 more
- cpe:2.3:o:paloaltonetworks:pan-os:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*range: >=8.1.0,<8.1.13
- (no CPE)range: <8.1.13
- (no CPE)range: 8.1 < 8.1.13
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References
1- security.paloaltonetworks.com/CVE-2020-1980nvdVendor Advisory
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