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Palo Alto Networks fixes severe Code Execution and DoS flaws in PAN-OS

Security Affairs

Palo Alto Networks addressed critical and high-severity denial-of-service (DoS) and arbitrary code execution vulnerabilities in its PAN-OS firewall software. The vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2020-2040 , could be exploited by sending specially crafted requests to the Multi-Factor Authentication (MFA) interface or the Captive Portal.