Number: AV20-331
Date: 10 September 2020
On 9 September 2020 Palo Alto released Security Updates to address vulnerabilities in PAN-OS – versions 10.0, 9.1, 9.0, 8.1 and 8.0. Included were critical severity updates for the following:
- PAN-OS 8.0 - all versions
- PAN-OS 8.1 - versions prior to 8.1.15
- PAN-OS 9.0 - versions prior to 9.0.9
- PAN-OS 9.1 - versions prior to 9.1.3
Exploitation of the critical vulnerability could allow an unauthenticated actor to disrupt system processes and potentially execute arbitrary code with root privileges.
The Cyber Centre encourages users and administrators to review the following web links and apply the necessary updates.
https://security.paloaltonetworks.com/
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