CVE record · CVE-2019-17440

PAN-OS on PA-7000 Series: Improper restriction of communication to Log Forwarding Card (LFC) allows root access

CVSS 10.0 CriticalCriticalEPSS 0.017 · 77th percentile

Critical, because:

  • CVSS score 10.0: 9.0 or more.

How we decide what’s critical

Published by the CVE Program (CNA: palo_alto) at 20 Dec 2019, 15:22 UTC. agentprime has not analysed this yet, so whether it affects any app is not known. This CVE names a vendor and product rather than a package, so the lockfile check doesn’t match it.

Affected products, as the CNA wrote them
VendorProductVersions
Palo Alto Networks PAN-OS
  • affected 9.0 to before 9.0.5-h3 custom
Palo Alto Networks PAN-OS
  • unaffected 8.0
  • unaffected 8.1
Identifiers
CVE-2019-17440
CNA
palo_alto
Weakness (CWE)
CWE-923
Published
20 Dec 2019
Updated
17 Sept 2024

Not analysed yet

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Severity and exploitation

ScoreRatingCVSSVectorSource
10.0 Critical 3.1 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H CNA (palo_alto)
  • CISA KEV Not listed.
  • EPSS 0.017, the 77th percentile, on 5 Nov 2026: FIRST’s estimate of the chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Timeline

This record came from the full history of the CVE Program, published 20 Dec 2019. New records show when each source confirmed them.

Sources

References from the CNA

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