CVE-2020-2015: Palo Alto Networks PAN-OS

High severity, CVSS 8.8. EPSS: 1.9% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

A buffer overflow vulnerability in the PAN-OS management server allows authenticated users to crash system processes or potentially execute arbitrary code with root privileges. This issue affects: PAN-OS 7.1 versions earlier than 7.1.26; PAN-OS 8.1 versions earlier than 8.1.13; PAN-OS 9.0 versions earlier than 9.0.7; PAN-OS 9.1 versions earlier than 9.1.1; All versions of PAN-OS 8.0.

Affected products

• Palo Alto Networks PAN-OS: from 7.1.0, before 7.1.26 (fixed in 7.1.26); from 8.0.0, up to and including 8.0.20; from 8.1.0, before 8.1.13 (fixed in 8.1.13); from 9.0.0, before 9.0.7 (fixed in 9.0.7); from 9.1.0, before 9.1.1 (fixed in 9.1.1)

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