Riskcovery

CVE-2026-0320

PAN-OS: Authenticated Admin Command Injection Vulnerability

State
Published
Severity
6.1 Medium
Published
Oct 14, 2026
Updated
Oct 16, 2026
Reserved
Nov 3, 2025

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Description

A command injection vulnerability in Palo Alto Networks PAN-OS® software enables an authenticated administrator to bypass system restrictions and run arbitrary commands as a root user. To be able to exploit this issue, the user must have access to the PAN-OS management interface.

The security risk posed by this issue is significantly minimized 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 affected by this vulnerability.

Scores

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

Weaknesses

  • CWE-78 Improper Neutralization of Special Elements used in an OS Command ('OS Command Injection')

Affected Products

ProductVersions
Cloud NGFWPalo Alto Networks
  • AllNot affected
PAN-OSPalo Alto Networks
  • 12.2.0 to before 12.2.4Affectedfrom 12.2.4Not affected
  • 12.1.0 to before 12.1.10-h2Affectedfrom 12.1.10-h2Not affectedfrom 12.1.7-h8Not affectedfrom 12.1.4-h12Not affected
  • 11.2.0 to before 11.2.16Affectedfrom 11.2.16Not affectedfrom 11.2.13-h3Not affectedfrom 11.2.10-h15Not affectedfrom 11.2.7-h21Not affectedfrom 11.2.4-h22Not affected
  • 11.1.0 to before 11.1.16-h3Affectedfrom 11.1.16-h3Not affectedfrom 11.1.13-h15Not affectedfrom 11.1.10-h35Not affectedfrom 11.1.7-h11Not affectedfrom 11.1.6-h39Not affectedfrom 11.1.4-h37Not affected
  • 10.2.0 to before 10.2.18-h12Affectedfrom 10.2.18-h12Not affectedfrom 10.2.16-h11Not affectedfrom 10.2.13-h26Not affectedfrom 10.2.10-h41Not affectedfrom 10.2.7-h38Not affected
Prisma AccessPalo Alto Networks
  • All to before 12.1.7-h8Not affectedfrom 12.1.7-h8Not affected

References

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