Palo Alto Networks firewalls, VPNs vulnerable to OpenSSL bug

American cybersecurity company Palo Alto Networks warned customers on Wednesday that some of its firewall, VPN, and XDR products are vulnerable to a high severity OpenSSL infinite loop bug disclosed three weeks ago.

Even though the OpenSSL team released a patch two weeks ago when it publicly disclosed the bug, customers will have to wait until later this month when Palo Alto Networks plans to release security updates.

“PAN-OS, GlobalProtect app, and Cortex XDR agent software contain a vulnerable version of the OpenSSL library and product availability is impacted by this vulnerability. For PAN-OS software, this includes both hardware and virtual firewalls and Panorama appliances as well as Prisma Access customers,” the company said.

Even though attackers can abuse the OpenSSL infinite loop flaw in low complexity attacks without user interaction, the OpenSSL team says the impact of successful exploitation is limited to triggering a denial of service.

“The flaw is not too difficult to exploit, but the impact is limited to DoS. The most common scenario where exploitation of this flaw would be a problem would be for a TLS client accessing a malicious server that serves up a problematic certificate,” an OpenSSL spokesperson told BleepingComputer.

Last week, network-attached storage maker QNAP also warned customers that this OpenSSL DoS bug impacts most of its NAS devices, with a patch to be released as soon as possible.

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