CVE-2020-2014 — PAN-OS: OS injection vulnerability in PAN-OS management server

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HIGH

PAN-OS: OS injection vulnerability in PAN-OS management server

Published May 13, 2020

8.8

HIGH

CVSS 3.1

EPSS 2.66%

Description

An OS Command Injection vulnerability in PAN-OS management server allows authenticated users to inject and execute arbitrary shell commands with root privileges. This issue affects: All versions of PAN-OS 7.1 and 8.0; PAN-OS 8.1 versions earlier than 8.1.14; PAN-OS 9.0 versions earlier than 9.0.7.

Affected products

Vendor Palo Alto Networks Product Pan-OS Default
n/a
- Version
  7.1.*
  Status
  affected
  Constraints
  -
- Version
  8.0.*
  Status
  affected
  Constraints
  -
- Version
  8.1
  Status
  affected
  Constraints
  <8.1.14
- Version
  9.0
  Status
  affected
  Constraints
  <9.0.7
- Version
  9.1.0
  Status
  unaffected
  Constraints
  <9.1*

Default status is the baseline for the product, each version can override it (e.g. patched versions marked unaffected).

Vendor

Product

Default status

Versions

Palo Alto Networks

Pan-OS

n/a

Version	Status	Constraints
7.1.*	affected	-
8.0.*	affected	-
8.1	affected	<8.1.14
9.0	affected	<9.0.7
9.1.0	unaffected	<9.1*

Remediation

Vendor solution

This issue is fixed in PAN-OS 8.1.14, PAN-OS 9.0.7, PAN-OS 9.1.0 and all later PAN-OS versions.

PAN-OS 8.0 is now end-of-life as of October 31, 2019, and is no longer covered by our Product Security Assurance policies.

PAN-OS 7.1 is on extended support until June 30, 2020, and is only being considered for critical security vulnerability fixes.

Metrics

2.66% 0.02659

Estimated probability of exploitation in the wild in the next 30 days (FIRST EPSS). As of Oct 1, 2026.

EPSS probability 0.02659

Score over time

2021–2026

EPSS v1
EPSS v5
EPSS v2
EPSS v3
EPSS v4

Percentile over time

EPSS v1
EPSS v5
EPSS v2
EPSS v3
EPSS v4

Table of values (16 key points)

Flat stretches are collapsed; showing up to 120 newest points.

Date	Score	Percentile	Model
Oct 1, 2026	2.66% (0.02659)	85.16th	v5 (v2026.06.15)
Jun 15, 2026	2.66% (0.02659)	83.67th	v5 (v2026.06.15)
Mar 30, 2025	4.82% (0.04821)	88.50th	v4 (v2025.03.14)
Mar 29, 2025	10.97% (0.10969)	88.99th	v4 (v2025.03.14)
Mar 19, 2025	4.82% (0.04821)	88.20th	v4 (v2025.03.14)
Mar 17, 2025	3.28% (0.03275)	86.33th	v4 (v2025.03.14)
Jul 20, 2024	0.24% (0.00238)	62.32th	v3 (v2023.03.01)
Jun 14, 2024	0.24% (0.00238)	62.06th	v3 (v2023.03.01)
Mar 7, 2023	0.24% (0.00238)	60.05th	v3 (v2023.03.01)
Mar 6, 2023	2.05% (0.02055)	79.82th	v2 (v2022.01.01)
Apr 1, 2022	2.05% (0.02055)	77.90th	v2 (v2022.01.01)
Feb 4, 2022	9.03% (0.09029)	86.86th	v2 (v2022.01.01)
Feb 3, 2022	3.20% (0.03197)	66.46th	v5 (v2026.06.15)
Jan 6, 2022	3.20% (0.03197)	66.14th	v1
Sep 1, 2021	0.73% (0.00731)	49.19th	v1
Apr 14, 2021	0.73% (0.00731)	0.00th	v1

Weaknesses (1)

CWE-78

OS Command Injection

References (1)

https://security.paloaltonetworks.com/CVE-2020-2014
x_refsource_MISCVendor Advisory

Link	Providers	Tags
https://security.paloaltonetworks.com/CVE-2020-2014		x_refsource_MISCVendor Advisory

Change history (0)

No recorded changes yet.

Sources

CVE.org / MITRE

Status PUBLISHED

Assigner palo_alto

Published May 13, 2020

Updated Sep 16, 2024

Reserved Dec 4, 2019

Link CVE-2020-2014

CISA Vulnrichment

Updated n/a

NVD

Status Modified

Modified Jun 17, 2026

Link CVE-2020-2014

Red Hat

Severity n/a

Public date n/a

Links CVE-2020-2014