Description
Palo Alto Networks PAN-OS before 5.0.20, 5.1.x before 5.1.13, 6.0.x before 6.0.15, 6.1.x before 6.1.15, 7.0.x before 7.0.11, and 7.1.x before 7.1.6 allows local users to gain privileges via crafted values of unspecified environment variables.
Public exploits
Exploit or proof-of-concept code for this vulnerability is publicly available, which lowers the bar for attackers. Treat it as a reason to patch sooner.
Third-party code, not reviewed by us. Public PoCs are sometimes fake or contain malware. Read the code first and run it only in an isolated lab, against systems you are authorised to test.
Exploit-DB 2
- Palo Alto Networks PanOS - 'root_trace' Local Privilege Escalation EDB-40788 · local · Nov 18, 2016 · verified
- Palo Alto Networks PanOS - 'root_reboot' Local Privilege Escalation EDB-40789 · local · Nov 18, 2016 · verified
Sources: PoC-in-GitHub, Metasploit Framework, Exploit-DB — updated daily. Only links are listed; no exploit code is hosted here.
References
- 40789 exploit
- 40788 exploit
- 94400 vdb-entry
- 1037381 vdb-entry
- https://security.paloaltonetworks.com/CVE-2016-9151