Vulnerabilities > CVE-2017-7644 - Information Exposure vulnerability in Paloaltonetworks Pan-Os
Attack vector
NETWORK Attack complexity
LOW Privileges required
LOW Confidentiality impact
HIGH Integrity impact
NONE Availability impact
NONE Summary
The Management Web Interface in Palo Alto Networks PAN-OS before 6.1.17, 7.x before 7.0.15, and 7.1.x before 7.1.9 allows remote authenticated users to obtain sensitive information by leveraging incorrect permission validation, aka PAN-SA-2017-0013 and PAN-70541.
Vulnerable Configurations
Common Weakness Enumeration (CWE)
Common Attack Pattern Enumeration and Classification (CAPEC)
- Subverting Environment Variable Values The attacker directly or indirectly modifies environment variables used by or controlling the target software. The attacker's goal is to cause the target software to deviate from its expected operation in a manner that benefits the attacker.
- Footprinting An attacker engages in probing and exploration activity to identify constituents and properties of the target. Footprinting is a general term to describe a variety of information gathering techniques, often used by attackers in preparation for some attack. It consists of using tools to learn as much as possible about the composition, configuration, and security mechanisms of the targeted application, system or network. Information that might be collected during a footprinting effort could include open ports, applications and their versions, network topology, and similar information. While footprinting is not intended to be damaging (although certain activities, such as network scans, can sometimes cause disruptions to vulnerable applications inadvertently) it may often pave the way for more damaging attacks.
- Exploiting Trust in Client (aka Make the Client Invisible) An attack of this type exploits a programs' vulnerabilities in client/server communication channel authentication and data integrity. It leverages the implicit trust a server places in the client, or more importantly, that which the server believes is the client. An attacker executes this type of attack by placing themselves in the communication channel between client and server such that communication directly to the server is possible where the server believes it is communicating only with a valid client. There are numerous variations of this type of attack.
- Browser Fingerprinting An attacker carefully crafts small snippets of Java Script to efficiently detect the type of browser the potential victim is using. Many web-based attacks need prior knowledge of the web browser including the version of browser to ensure successful exploitation of a vulnerability. Having this knowledge allows an attacker to target the victim with attacks that specifically exploit known or zero day weaknesses in the type and version of the browser used by the victim. Automating this process via Java Script as a part of the same delivery system used to exploit the browser is considered more efficient as the attacker can supply a browser fingerprinting method and integrate it with exploit code, all contained in Java Script and in response to the same web page request by the browser.
- Session Credential Falsification through Prediction This attack targets predictable session ID in order to gain privileges. The attacker can predict the session ID used during a transaction to perform spoofing and session hijacking.
Nessus
| NASL family | Palo Alto Local Security Checks |
| NASL id | PALO_ALTO_PAN-OS_7_0_15.NASL |
| description | The version of Palo Alto Networks PAN-OS running on the remote host is 6.1.x prior to 6.1.17, 7.0.x prior to 7.0.15, 7.1.x prior to 7.1.10, or 8.0.x prior to 8.0.2. It is, therefore, affected by multiple vulnerabilities : - A flaw exists in the GNU wget component when handling server redirects to FTP resources due to the destination file name being obtained from the redirected URL and not the original URL. An unauthenticated, remote attacker can exploit this, via a specially crafted response, to cause a different file name to be used than intended, resulting in writing to arbitrary files. (CVE-2016-4971) - A flaw exists in the Linux kernel due to improper determination of the rate of challenge ACK segments. An unauthenticated, remote attacker can exploit this to gain access to the shared counter, which makes it easier to hijack TCP sessions using a blind in-window attack. This issue only affects version 7.1.x. (CVE-2016-5696) - An out-of-bounds read error exists when handling packets using the CHACHA20/POLY1305 or RC4-MD5 ciphers. An unauthenticated, remote attacker can exploit this, via specially crafted truncated packets, to cause a denial of service condition. This issue does not affect version 6.1.x. (CVE-2017-3731) - A cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability exists in GlobalProtect due to improper validation of user-supplied input to unspecified request parameters 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 | 100419 |
| published | 2017-05-25 |
| reporter | This script is Copyright (C) 2017-2019 and is owned by Tenable, Inc. or an Affiliate thereof. |
| source | https://www.tenable.com/plugins/nessus/100419 |
| title | Palo Alto Networks PAN-OS 6.1.x < 6.1.17 / 7.0.x < 7.0.15 / 7.1.x < 7.1.10 / 8.0.x < 8.0.2 Multiple Vulnerabilities |
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