Predictive Vulnerability Intelligence.

Product

  • Product
  • Pricing
  • Documentation

Company

  • About
  • Partnerships
  • Blog
  • Support

Legal

  • Terms
  • Privacy
  • Data Licensing

© 2026 FAUCET Technologies LLC. All rights reserved.

CVE-2020-2013

28
FAUCET Score

CVE-2020-2013 is a cleartext transmission vulnerability in Palo Alto Networks PAN-OS Panorama, affecting versions 7.1, 8.0, 8.1, 9.0, and 9.1. It exposes an authenticated administrator's PAN-OS session cookie when a context switch occurs to a managed firewall. An attacker intercepting this network traffic can gain unauthorized access to the administrator's account and manipulate managed devices. With a CVSS score of 8.8 (High), this vulnerability has a network attack vector, low attack complexity, and high impact on confidentiality, integrity, and availability. There is currently no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB), or significant community discussion or media coverage.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
>= 7.1.0, <= 7.1.26CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:paloaltonetworks:pan-os:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
>= 8.0.0, <= 8.0.20CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:paloaltonetworks:pan-os:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
>= 8.1.0, < 8.1.13CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:paloaltonetworks:pan-os:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
>= 9.0.0, < 9.0.6CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:paloaltonetworks:pan-os:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
>= 9.1.0, < 9.1.1CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:paloaltonetworks:pan-os:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 3.1

8.3HIGH

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H

Attack Vector
NETWORK
Attack Complexity
HIGH
Privileges Required
NONE
User Interaction
REQUIRED
Scope
CHANGED
Confidentiality Impact
HIGH
Integrity Impact
HIGH
Availability Impact
HIGH
Exploitability Score
1.6
Impact Score
6.0
CvssVersion
3.1

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
0.64%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
47.0%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-28
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0064 is in the 48th percentile among its peer group of 14,875 CVEs.

Social Chatter

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.1 Reddit, 0.2 Bluesky, 0.1 Mastodon, and 0.2 GitHub mentions.

Media Mentions

No media coverage found for this CVE.

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.3 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.1 Security Researcher mentions.

Remediation

Vendor Patches (1)

paloaltovendor investigatingvia nvd_reference
View patch

References

security.paloaltonetworks.com / CVE-2020-2013
Vendor Advisory