CVE-2021-3060 PAN-OS: OS Command Injection in Simple Certificate Enrollment Protocol (SCEP)
Unauthenticated attackers can execute arbitrary code with root privileges via OS command injection in the SCEP feature of PAN-OS firewalls.
- Exploited in the wild
- Not known
- Login needed
- Not needed
- Attackable
- Over the internet
- Victim action needed
- Not needed
- Fix
- None listed
What is CVE-2021-3060?
CVE-2021-3060 is a high-severity command injection vulnerability in Paloaltonetworks Pan-Os, published on 10 Nov 2021. An attacker can exploit it over the internet without logging in, with no action from the victim.
Official description
An OS command injection vulnerability in the Simple Certificate Enrollment Protocol (SCEP) feature of PAN-OS software allows an unauthenticated network-based attacker with specific knowledge of the firewall configuration to execute arbitrary code with root user privileges. The attacker must have network access to the GlobalProtect interfaces to exploit this issue. This issue impacts: PAN-OS 8.1 versions earlier than PAN-OS 8.1.20-h1; PAN-OS 9.0 versions earlier than PAN-OS 9.0.14-h3; PAN-OS 9.1 versions earlier than PAN-OS 9.1.11-h2; PAN-OS 10.0 versions earlier than PAN-OS 10.0.8; PAN-OS 10.1 versions earlier than PAN-OS 10.1.3. Prisma Access customers with Prisma Access 2.1 Preferred and Prisma Access 2.1 Innovation firewalls are impacted by this issue.
Weakness: CWE-78
Which versions are affected by CVE-2021-3060?
It affects 2 products.
Products include Paloaltonetworks Pan-Os, Paloaltonetworks Prisma Access.
How do I fix CVE-2021-3060?
No fix has been published for CVE-2021-3060 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.
Upgrade, and pass arguments to programs as a list instead of through a shell. More about Command injection.
Is CVE-2021-3060 being exploited?
There is no known exploitation of CVE-2021-3060 in the wild and no public exploit code.
Public exploit code: 2 proofs of concept on GitHub.
Other vulnerabilities in Paloaltonetworks Pan-Os
- CVE-2024-3400 Palo Alto Networks PAN-OS Command Injection
- CVE-2020-2021 Palo Alto Networks PAN-OS Authentication Bypass
- CVE-2017-15944 Palo Alto Networks PAN-OS Remote Code Execution
- CVE-2026-0300 Palo Alto Networks PAN-OS Out-of-bounds Write
- CVE-2024-0012 Palo Alto Networks PAN-OS Management Interface Authentication Bypass
Sources
Also known as GHSA-xhxm-4vx2-mf6c.