CVE-2020-2042

7.2 highEPSS 2.3%

High (7.2) in paloaltonetworks pan-os. EPSS 2.3% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

A buffer overflow vulnerability in the PAN-OS management web interface allows authenticated administrators to disrupt system processes and potentially execute arbitrary code with root privileges. This issue impacts only PAN-OS 10.0 versions earlier than PAN-OS 10.0.1.

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: 2.3% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days; higher than 83% of CVEs (scores of 2026-10-31)
CWEs: CWE-120, CWE-121
Published: 2020-09-09
Modified: 2026-06-17
Record from: the NVD, synced 2026-10-19

Affected

paloaltonetworks:pan-os

References

https://security.paloaltonetworks.com/CVE-2020-2042
https://security.paloaltonetworks.com/CVE-2020-2042

Check your stack JSON