THREATPORT/VULNERABILITY/CVE-2019-1581
CRITICAL SEVERITY

CVE-2019-1581

Pan Os vulnerability

CVSS
9.8
EPSS
3.2%
EPSS pct
87th
Exploited
No known
A remote code execution vulnerability in the PAN-OS SSH device management interface that can lead to unauthenticated remote users with network access to the SSH management interface gaining root access to PAN-OS. This issue affects PAN-OS 7.1 versions prior to 7.1.24-h1, 7.1.25; 8.0 versions prior to 8.0.19-h1, 8.0.20; 8.1 versions prior to 8.1.9-h4, 8.1.10; 9.0 versions prior to 9.0.3-h3, 9.0.4.
Affected vendor
Paloaltonetworks
Affected product
Pan Os
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Weakness type (CWE)
  • CWE-78 — OS Command Injection
  • CWE-20 — Improper Input Validation
Published
2019-08-23

Risk analysis

Based on its CVSS vector, this vulnerability is exploitable over the network, low attack complexity, requiring no privileges, no user interaction. Successful exploitation leads to high impact to confidentiality, high impact to integrity, high impact to availability.

Its EPSS score of 3.2% reflects a lower probability of exploitation activity in the wild over the next 30 days, placing it above 87% of all scored CVEs.

Check your external exposure to CVE-2019-1581

  • Confirm whether Paloaltonetworks Pan Os is running on any internet-facing host or subdomain.
  • Match discovered service fingerprints against the version affected by CVE-2019-1581.
  • Prioritise remediation if the asset is public, business-critical, or near authentication/payment flows.

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