CVE-2020-2042: Palo Alto Networks PAN-OS

High severity, CVSS 7.2. 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.

Affected products

• Palo Alto Networks PAN-OS: from 10.0.0, before 10.0.1 (fixed in 10.0.1)

Published 2020-09-09. Last modified 2026-06-17.