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CVE PROGRAM SOURCE RECORD6.0 Medium

CVE-2026-0272

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

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.

Affected products

Version statuses are supplied by the assigning organization. Consult the original record for detailed ranges and platform conditions.

Palo Alto Networks Cloud NGFW

Default version status: unaffected

  • Allunaffected

Palo Alto Networks PAN-OS

Default version status: unaffected

  • 12.1.0 to < 12.1.4-h7affected
  • 11.2.0 to < 11.2.4-h18affected
  • 11.1.0 to < 11.1.4-h34affected
  • 10.2.0 to < 10.2.7-h35affected

Palo Alto Networks Prisma Access

Default version status: unaffected

  • Allunaffected

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