PAN-OS vulnerabilities add to a torrid year for enterprise software bugs

Cybersecurity researchers on Wednesday revealed four new vulnerabilities in enterprise software used by thousands of companies around the world that, if exploited, could be used to steal data from internal networks. The bugs in the PAN operating system (PAN-OS) made by Palo Alto Networks add to a growing list of vulnerabilities in widely used corporate software that researchers have uncovered in 2020. Some of those vulnerabilities, such as a flaw in software made by Citrix, have been used in espionage and other hacking operations. In the case of the PAN-OS flaws, which security firm Positive Technologies found, CyberScoop has not seen evidence that hackers have successfully exploited them. Palo Alto Networks released fixes for all of the vulnerabilities and told customers to apply them. One of the more critical vulnerabilities could allow a hacker who first accesses the software’s management interface to plant malicious code in the operating system and obtain […]

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