CVE-2021-3054
7.2 HIGHA time-of-check to time-of-use (TOCTOU) race condition vulnerability in the Palo Alto Networks PAN-OS web interface enables an authentica...
Published: 2021-09-08 · Last updated: 2026-06-17
Severity and scoring
- CVSS
- 7.2 HIGH
- Vector
- CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
- CWE
- CWE-367
Affected products
| Vendor | Product |
|---|---|
| paloaltonetworks | pan-os |
Description
A time-of-check to time-of-use (TOCTOU) race condition vulnerability in the Palo Alto Networks PAN-OS web interface enables an authenticated administrator with permission to upload plugins to execute arbitrary code with root user privileges. This issue impacts: PAN-OS 8.1 versions earlier than PAN-OS 8.1.20; PAN-OS 9.0 versions earlier than PAN-OS 9.0.14; PAN-OS 9.1 versions earlier than PAN-OS 9.1.11; PAN-OS 10.0 versions earlier than PAN-OS 10.0.7; PAN-OS 10.1 versions earlier than PAN-OS 10.1.2. This issue does not affect Prisma Access.
Source: NVD
References
- [NVD]https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2021-3054
- [Vendor advisory]https://security.paloaltonetworks.com/CVE-2021-3054
- [Vendor advisory]https://security.paloaltonetworks.com/CVE-2021-3054
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