CVE-2020-2008: Palo Alto Networks PAN-OS

High severity, CVSS 7.2. EPSS: 2.8% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

An OS command injection and external control of filename vulnerability in Palo Alto Networks PAN-OS allows authenticated administrators to execute code with root privileges or delete arbitrary system files and impact the system's integrity or cause a denial of service condition. This issue affects: All versions of PAN-OS 7.1 and 8.0; PAN-OS 8.1 versions earlier than 8.1.14.

Affected products

• Palo Alto Networks PAN-OS: from 7.1.0, up to and including 7.1.26; from 8.0.0, up to and including 8.0.20; from 8.1.0, up to and including 8.1.13

Published 2020-05-13. Last modified 2026-06-17.