CVE-2020-1990

7.2 highEPSS 2.1%

High (7.2) in paloaltonetworks pan-os. EPSS 2.1% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

A stack-based buffer overflow vulnerability in the management server component of PAN-OS allows an authenticated user to upload a corrupted PAN-OS configuration and potentially execute code with root privileges. This issue affects Palo Alto Networks PAN-OS 8.1 versions before 8.1.13; 9.0 versions before 9.0.7. This issue does not affect PAN-OS 7.1.

Severity

CVSS 3.1

7.2 high

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

EPSS: 2.1% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days; higher than 81% of CVEs (scores of 2026-10-31)
CWEs: CWE-787, CWE-121
Published: 2020-04-08
Modified: 2026-06-17
Record from: the NVD, synced 2026-10-19

Affected

paloaltonetworks:pan-os

References

https://security.paloaltonetworks.com/CVE-2020-1990
https://security.paloaltonetworks.com/CVE-2020-1990

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