CVE-2020-2016

HighCVSS 7.0/10Last modified Jun 17, 2026

Description

A race condition due to insecure creation of a file in a temporary directory vulnerability in PAN-OS allows for root privilege escalation from a limited linux user account. This allows an attacker who has escaped the restricted shell as a low privilege administrator, possibly by exploiting another vulnerability, to escalate privileges to become root user. This issue affects: PAN-OS 7.1 versions earlier than 7.1.26; PAN-OS 8.1 versions earlier than 8.1.13; PAN-OS 9.0 versions earlier than 9.0.6; All versions of PAN-OS 8.0.

Metrics

CVSS 3.1 7.0/10CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Weakness enumeration

CWE-377 CWE-362

Affected software

No affected versions have been published.

Timeline

Published: May 13, 2020
Last modified: Jun 17, 2026
NVD status: Modified

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