High severity7.2NVD Advisory· Published Sep 9, 2020· Updated Jun 17, 2026
CVE-2020-2038
CVE-2020-2038
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.
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Affected products
3<9.0.10, <9.1.4, <10.0.1+ 2 more
- (no CPE)range: <9.0.10, <9.1.4, <10.0.1
- (no CPE)range: 10.0
- cpe:2.3:o:paloaltonetworks:pan-os:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*range: >=9.0.0,<9.0.10
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References
3- packetstormsecurity.com/files/168008/PAN-OS-10.0-Remote-Code-Execution.htmlnvdExploitThird Party AdvisoryVDB Entry
- packetstormsecurity.com/files/168408/Palo-Alto-Networks-Authenticated-Remote-Code-Execution.htmlnvdExploitThird Party AdvisoryVDB Entry
- security.paloaltonetworks.com/CVE-2020-2038nvdVendor Advisory
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