CVE-2020-2028: Palo Alto Networks PAN-OS

High severity, CVSS 7.2. EPSS: 1.8% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

An OS Command Injection vulnerability in PAN-OS management server allows authenticated administrators to execute arbitrary OS commands with root privileges when uploading a new certificate in FIPS-CC mode. This issue affects: All versions of PAN-OS 7.1 and PAN-OS 8.0; PAN-OS 8.1 versions earlier than PAN-OS 8.1.13; PAN-OS 9.0 versions earlier than PAN-OS 9.0.7.

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, before 8.1.13 (fixed in 8.1.13); from 9.0.0, before 9.0.7 (fixed in 9.0.7)

Published 2020-06-10. Last modified 2026-06-17.