CVE-2021-3045

4.9 MEDIUM

An OS command argument injection vulnerability in the Palo Alto Networks PAN-OS web interface enables an authenticated administrator to r...

Published: 2021-08-11 · Last updated: 2026-06-17

Severity and scoring

CVSS: 4.9 MEDIUM
Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
CWE: CWE-88

Affected products

Vendor	Product
paloaltonetworks	pan-os

Description

An OS command argument injection vulnerability in the Palo Alto Networks PAN-OS web interface enables an authenticated administrator to read any arbitrary file from the file system. This issue impacts: PAN-OS 8.1 versions earlier than PAN-OS 8.1.19; PAN-OS 9.0 versions earlier than PAN-OS 9.0.14; PAN-OS 9.1 versions earlier than PAN-OS 9.1.10. PAN-OS 10.0 and later versions are not impacted.

Source: NVD

References

[NVD]https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2021-3045
[Vendor advisory]https://security.paloaltonetworks.com/CVE-2021-3045
[Vendor advisory]https://security.paloaltonetworks.com/CVE-2021-3045

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