Prisma Cloud Compute: SAML Authentication Bypass Vulnerability in Console

Affected versions

NVD version ranges (for catalog products). Add the product to your stack with a version and matching uses these.

• paloaltonetworks prisma cloud19.11
• paloaltonetworks prisma cloud20.04
• paloaltonetworks prisma cloud20.09
• paloaltonetworks prisma cloud20.12

Versions reported by the vendor

Affected version ranges reported by the assigning authority (palo_alto). Independent of NVD's CPE analysis and usually ahead of it.

• Palo Alto Networks Prisma Cloud Compute

  • 19.11 and later · up to and including update 2affected
  • 20.04 and later · up to and including update 2affected
  • 20.09 and later · up to and including update 2affected
  • 20.12 and later · before update 1affectedfixed in update 1

Other highest-scoring records for the same primary product.

• CVE-2024-5906Prisma Cloud Compute: Stored Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) Vulnerability in the Web Interface
  19Monitor
• CVE-2021-3043Prisma Cloud: Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) Vulnerability in Prisma Cloud Compute Web Console
  19Monitor
• CVE-2021-3039Prisma Cloud Compute: User role authorization secret for Console leaked through log file export
  15Monitor

FIRST EPSS daily score; only changes of 0.01 or more are recorded (step chart).

Root cause

The verifier takes the algorithm to verify with from the token’s own header. Untrusted data ends up deciding its own verification rule.

A representative example of this vulnerability class. Not the vendor's source code; it shows the faulty pattern and its fix.

1const claims = jwt.verify(token, publicKey);

1const claims = jwt.verify(token, publicKey, {2  algorithms: ["RS256"],3  issuer: "https://id.example.com",4  audience: "portal",5});

Attack context

MITRE CAPEC attack patterns and ATT&CK techniques for this weakness class (CWE). A starting point for detection rules and threat hunting.