Riskcovery

CVE-2026-0272

PAN-OS: Privilege Escalation (PE) Vulnerability in the Command Line Interface (CLI)

State
Published
Severity
6.0 Medium
Published
Jun 10, 2026
Updated
Oct 15, 2026
Reserved
Nov 3, 2025

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Description

A privilege escalation vulnerability in Palo Alto Networks PAN-OS® software allows an authenticated administrator with access to the Command Line Interface (CLI) to perform actions on the device with root privileges.

The security risk posed by this issue is significantly minimized when CLI access is restricted to a limited group of administrators and by restricting access to the management interface to only trusted internal IP addresses according to our recommended best practice deployment guidelines https://live.paloaltonetworks.com/t5/community-blogs/tips-amp-tricks-how-to-secure-the-management-access-of-your-palo/ba-p/464431 .

This issue is applicable to PAN-OS software on PA-Series and VM-Series firewalls and on Panorama (virtual and M-Series).

Cloud NGFW, and Prisma® Access are not impacted by this vulnerability.

Scores

CVSSScoreVectorSource
4.06.0 MediumCVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:H/UI:N/VC:H/VI:H/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:U/AU:N/R:U/V:C/RE:M/U:Amberpalo_alto
4.05.6 MediumCVSS:4.0/AV:L/AC:L/AT:N/PR:H/UI:N/VC:H/VI:H/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:U/AU:N/R:U/V:C/RE:M/U:Amberpalo_alto

Weaknesses

Affected Products

ProductVersions
Cloud NGFWPalo Alto Networks
  • AllNot affected
PAN-OSPalo Alto Networks
  • 12.1.0 to before 12.1.4-h7Affectedfrom 12.1.4-h7Not affectedfrom 12.1.5Not affected
  • 11.2.0 to before 11.2.4-h18Affectedfrom 11.2.4-h18Not affectedfrom 11.2.7-h16Not affectedfrom 11.2.10-h9Not affectedfrom 11.2.11Not affected
  • 11.1.0 to before 11.1.4-h34Affectedfrom 11.1.4-h34Not affectedfrom 11.1.6-h33Not affectedfrom 11.1.7-h7Not affectedfrom 11.1.10-h27Not affectedfrom 11.1.13-h7Not affectedfrom 11.1.14Not affected
  • 10.2.0 to before 10.2.7-h35Affectedfrom 10.2.7-h35Not affectedfrom 10.2.10-h37Not affectedfrom 10.2.13-h22Not affectedfrom 10.2.16-h8Not affectedfrom 10.2.18-h5Not affected
Prisma AccessPalo Alto Networks
  • AllNot affected

References

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