Vulnerabilities > CVE-2016-9150 - Improper Restriction of Operations within the Bounds of a Memory Buffer vulnerability in Paloaltonetworks Pan-Os
Attack vector
NETWORK Attack complexity
LOW Privileges required
NONE Confidentiality impact
COMPLETE Integrity impact
COMPLETE Availability impact
COMPLETE Summary
Buffer overflow in the management web interface in Palo Alto Networks PAN-OS before 5.0.20, 5.1.x before 5.1.13, 6.0.x before 6.0.15, 6.1.x before 6.1.15, 7.0.x before 7.0.11, and 7.1.x before 7.1.6 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via unspecified vectors.
Vulnerable Configurations
Common Weakness Enumeration (CWE)
Common Attack Pattern Enumeration and Classification (CAPEC)
- Buffer Overflow via Environment Variables This attack pattern involves causing a buffer overflow through manipulation of environment variables. Once the attacker finds that they can modify an environment variable, they may try to overflow associated buffers. This attack leverages implicit trust often placed in environment variables.
- Overflow Buffers Buffer Overflow attacks target improper or missing bounds checking on buffer operations, typically triggered by input injected by an attacker. As a consequence, an attacker is able to write past the boundaries of allocated buffer regions in memory, causing a program crash or potentially redirection of execution as per the attackers' choice.
- Client-side Injection-induced Buffer Overflow This type of attack exploits a buffer overflow vulnerability in targeted client software through injection of malicious content from a custom-built hostile service.
- Filter Failure through Buffer Overflow In this attack, the idea is to cause an active filter to fail by causing an oversized transaction. An attacker may try to feed overly long input strings to the program in an attempt to overwhelm the filter (by causing a buffer overflow) and hoping that the filter does not fail securely (i.e. the user input is let into the system unfiltered).
- MIME Conversion An attacker exploits a weakness in the MIME conversion routine to cause a buffer overflow and gain control over the mail server machine. The MIME system is designed to allow various different information formats to be interpreted and sent via e-mail. Attack points exist when data are converted to MIME compatible format and back.
Exploit-Db
| description | Palo Alto Networks PanOS appweb3 - Stack Buffer Overflow. CVE-2016-9150. Dos exploit for Linux platform |
| file | exploits/linux/dos/40790.txt |
| id | EDB-ID:40790 |
| last seen | 2016-11-19 |
| modified | 2016-11-18 |
| platform | linux |
| port | |
| published | 2016-11-18 |
| reporter | Exploit-DB |
| source | https://www.exploit-db.com/download/40790/ |
| title | Palo Alto Networks PanOS appweb3 - Stack Buffer Overflow |
| type | dos |
Nessus
| NASL family | Palo Alto Local Security Checks |
| NASL id | PALO_ALTO_PAN-SA-2016-0035.NASL |
| description | The version of Palo Alto Networks PAN-OS running on the remote host is 5.0.x prior to 5.0.20, 5.1.x prior to 5.1.13, 6.0.x prior to 6.0.15, 6.1.x prior to 6.1.15, 7.0.x prior to 7.0.11, or 7.1.x prior to 7.1.6. It is, therefore, affected by multiple vulnerabilities : - An information disclosure vulnerability exists in the Address Object Parsing functionality due to a failure to properly escape single quote characters. An unauthenticated, remote attacker can exploit this to inject XPath content, resulting in the disclosure of sensitive information. (CVE-2016-9149) - An off-by-one buffer overflow condition exists in the management web interface within the mprItoa() function. An unauthenticated, remote attacker can exploit this, via a specially crafted request, to cause a denial of service condition or the execution of arbitrary code. (CVE-2016-9150) - An elevation of privilege vulnerability exists in /usr/local/bin/root_trace due to improper validation of the PYTHONPATH environment variable. A local attacker who has shell access can exploit this vulnerability, by manipulating environment variables, to execute code with root privileges. Note that this vulnerability exists because of an incomplete fix for CVE-2016-1712. (CVE-2016-9151) - A cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability exists in the Captive Portal due to improper validation of input before returning it to users. An unauthenticated, remote attacker can exploit this, via a specially crafted request, to execute arbitrary script code in a user |
| last seen | 2020-06-01 |
| modified | 2020-06-02 |
| plugin id | 95478 |
| published | 2016-12-02 |
| reporter | This script is Copyright (C) 2016-2019 and is owned by Tenable, Inc. or an Affiliate thereof. |
| source | https://www.tenable.com/plugins/nessus/95478 |
| title | Palo Alto Networks PAN-OS 5.0.x < 5.0.20 / 5.1.x < 5.1.13 / 6.0.x < 6.0.15 / 6.1.x < 6.1.15 / 7.0.x < 7.0.11 / 7.1.x < 7.1.6 Multiple Vulnerabilities (PAN-SA-2016-0033 / PAN-SA-2016-0034 / PAN-SA-2016-0035 / PAN-SA-2016-0037) |
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