# cveboard — Historical CVE brief

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Fix information unknown; no fixed version is derived here. Missing information does not prove that no fix exists.
Exploitation unknown; this catalogue does not assess exploitation.

## Source facts (JSON-quoted data)
CNA source text (English)
id: "CVE-2020-2040"
idYear: 2020
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2020-09-09T16:45:27.805Z"
updatedAt: "2024-09-16T22:40:15.121Z"
importedAt: "2026-10-24T01:56:17.081Z"
snapshot: {"id":"cve_2026-10-24_midnight_baseline","at":"2026-10-24T00:00:00.000Z","source":"https://github.com/CVEProject/cvelistV5/releases/tag/cve_2026-10-24_0100Z"}
url: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2020-2040"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2020-2040.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2020-2040"
title: "PAN-OS: Buffer overflow when Captive Portal or Multi-Factor Authentication (MFA) is enabled"
summary: "A buffer overflow vulnerability in PAN-OS allows an unauthenticated attacker to disrupt system processes and potentially execute arbitrary code with root privileges by sending a malicious request to the Captive Portal or Multi-Factor Authentication interface. This issue impacts: All versions of PAN-OS 8.0; PAN-OS 8.1 versions earlier than PAN-OS 8.1.15; PAN-OS 9.0 versions earlier than PAN-OS 9.0.9; PAN-OS 9.1 versions earlier than PAN-OS 9.1.3."
affected: [{"versions":[{"version":"8.0.*","status":"affected"},{"version":"9.0","status":"affected","versionType":"custom","lessThan":"9.0.9","changes":[{"at":"9.0.9","status":"unaffected"}]},{"version":"9.1","status":"affected","versionType":"custom","lessThan":"9.1.3","changes":[{"at":"9.1.3","status":"unaffected"}]},{"version":"8.1","status":"affected","versionType":"custom","lessThan":"8.1.15","changes":[{"at":"8.1.15","status":"unaffected"}]},{"version":"10.0.0","status":"unaffected","versionType":"custom","lessThan":"10.0*"}],"vendor":"Palo Alto Networks","product":"PAN-OS"}]

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