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A security bypass vulnerability in the Account Protection feature of Palo Alto Networks Prisma® Browser enables a user to bypass intended security controls.
An authentication bypass vulnerability in the network driver of Palo Alto Networks Prisma® Access Agent on Windows enables a local administrator to bypass security inspection, subsequently allowing them to inject and intercept arbitrary network traffic.
The Prisma Access Agent on Linux, macOS, iOS, Android, and Chrome OS is not affected.
Palo Alto Networks incorporated the following Chromium security fixes into our products:
https://chromereleases.googleblog.com/2025/10/stable-channel-update-for-desktop28.html
A buffer overflow vulnerability exists in the Palo Alto Networks GlobalProtect™ app that enables a man-in-the-middle (MitM) attacker or a rogue gateway to disrupt system processes and potentially execute arbitrary code with elevated privileges (SYSTEM privileges on Windows, and root privileges on macOS and Linux).
Improper certificate validation vulnerabilities in Palo Alto Networks GlobalProtect™ app enable an unauthenticated attacker with man-in-the-middle (MitM) access to intercept and modify application communications. VPN tunnel traffic is not impacted.
The GlobalProtect app on iOS, Android, and Chrome OS is not affected.
A race condition in the Palo Alto Networks GlobalProtect™ client on macOS enables a locally authenticated low-privileged attacker to escalate their privileges to root.
The GlobalProtect app on Linux, Windows, iOS, Android, and Chrome OS is not affected.
An information disclosure vulnerability in the URL Filtering feature of Palo Alto Networks PAN-OS® software enables an unauthenticated user with network access to obtain sensitive information.
Panorama is not impacted by this vulnerability.
A vulnerability in Palo Alto Networks Prisma® Access Agent on Windows enables a local attacker with administrator privileges to bypass the anti-tamper protection, enabling unauthorized access to protected processes and files.
The Prisma Access Agent on Linux, macOS, iOS, Android, and Chrome OS is not affected.
An improper input validation vulnerability exists in the Windows Pre-Logon Access Provider (PLAP) component of the Palo Alto Networks GlobalProtect™ app on Windows devices which enables a man-in-the-middle (MitM) attacker to execute arbitrary code with SYSTEM privileges on an affected client.
The GlobalProtect app on Linux, macOS, iOS, Android, and Chrome OS is not affected.
A privilege escalation (PE) vulnerability in the Palo Alto Networks Prisma® Access Agent app on Windows and macOS devices enables a local user to execute code with elevated privileges.
The Prisma Access Agent on Linux, iOS, Android, and ChromeOS is not affected.
Local privilege escalation vulnerabilities in the Palo Alto Networks GlobalProtect™ app enable a local user to escalate their privileges to NT AUTHORITY\SYSTEM on Windows, and root on macOS and Linux. This enables a non-administrative user to execute arbitrary commands with administrative privileges.
The GlobalProtect app on iOS, Android, and Chrome OS is not affected.
An improper link resolution before file access vulnerability exists in the Palo Alto Networks Prisma® Access Agent on Linux platforms that enables a local low privileged user to delete system files in a limited scope and disable Prisma Access Agent.
The Prisma Access Agent on macOS, Windows, iOS, Android, and Chrome OS is not affected.
End of life: 7/30/2029, Latest version: 12.2.2
End of life: 5/16/2027, Latest version: 9.3.0
Palo Alto put out an advisory for CVE-2026-0286, a command injection bug in the PAN-OS CLI. It's authenticated, so an attacker needs admin/CLI access, but with that they can break out of the CLI and run arbitrary commands on the underlying system. Lower urgency than an unauth RCE, but still worth patching, especially if you've got multiple admins, shared creds, or any path that could lead to CLI access getting popped.
Affected: PAN-OS below 12.1.8, 11.2.13, 11.1.16, and 10.2.18-h8 First fixed releases: 12.1.8, 11.2.13, 11.1.16, 10.2.18-h8. There are earlier hotfix builds per branch too if you can't jump straight to those. Cloud NGFW isn't affected, no action needed there.
If you can't patch right away and you have a Threat Prevention subscription, there's a temporary mitigation via Threat ID 510036 (content version 9122-10145 or later), but it only helps if you're already decrypting inbound management traffic, so it's not a quick toggle for most setups. Patching is still the actual fix.
Official Palo Alto advisory: https://security.paloaltonetworks.com/CVE-2026-0286
Side note, I run a small advisory tracker (VulniPulse) and there's a Discord for exactly this. If you want alerts like this hitting your inbox the second they drop, join the server and add the Palo Alto CVE alert, it'll ping you in Discord and email you the moment a new one lands, same as it did when this one hit. https://discord.gg/r2Y5kHsfMr
Palo Alto put out an advisory for CVE-2026-0286, a command injection bug in the PAN-OS CLI. It's authenticated, so an attacker needs admin/CLI access, but with that they can break out of the CLI and run arbitrary commands on the underlying system. Lower urgency than an unauth RCE, but still worth patching, especially if you've got multiple admins, shared creds, or any path that could lead to CLI access getting popped.
Affected: PAN-OS below 12.1.8, 11.2.13, 11.1.16, and 10.2.18-h8 First fixed releases: 12.1.8, 11.2.13, 11.1.16, 10.2.18-h8. There are earlier hotfix builds per branch too if you can't jump straight to those. Cloud NGFW isn't affected, no action needed there.
If you can't patch right away and you have a Threat Prevention subscription, there's a temporary mitigation via Threat ID 510036 (content version 9122-10145 or later), but it only helps if you're already decrypting inbound management traffic, so it's not a quick toggle for most setups. Patching is still the actual fix.
Official Palo Alto advisory: https://security.paloaltonetworks.com/CVE-2026-0286
Side note, I run a small advisory tracker (VulniPulse) and there's a Discord for exactly this. If you want alerts like this hitting your inbox the second they drop, join the server and add the Palo Alto CVE alert, it'll ping you in Discord and email you the moment a new one lands, same as it did when this one hit. https://discord.gg/r2Y5kHsfMr
Multiple denial of service vulnerabilities in Palo Alto Networks PAN-OS® software allow an unauthenticated attacker with network access to cause a denial of service (DoS) condition by sending specially crafted network traffic to or through a dataplane interface. Repeated attempts to trigger this condition result in the firewall entering maintenance mode.
Panorama is not impacted by these vulnerabilities.
Multiple cross site scripting vulnerabilities in the User-ID™ Authentication Portal (aka Captive Portal) service, GlobalProtect™ gateway/portal features and Clientless VPN of Palo Alto Networks PAN-OS® software enables a malicious unauthenticated user to store or execute malicious JavaScript payload.
The security risk posed by this issue is minimized when the management interface and access to the User-ID™ Authentication Portal is restricted 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 is not affected by this vulnerability.
An information disclosure vulnerability in Palo Alto Networks PAN-OS® software enables an unauthenticated attacker with network access to the management web interface to obtain web session tokens. This requires a legitimate user to first click on a malicious link provided by the attacker.
The security risk posed by this issue is minimized by restricting access to the management web 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.
An improper certificate validation vulnerability in the Prisma® Access Agent for iOS enables an attacker to perform a man-in-the-middle (MitM) attack to intercept VPN traffic.
The Prisma Access Agent on Windows, macOS, Linux, Android and ChromeOS are not affected.
A command injection vulnerability in the management plane of Palo Alto Networks PAN-OS® software enables an authenticated administrator to execute arbitrary OS commands as root.
The security risk posed by this issue is significantly minimized when CLI access is restricted to a limited group of administrators.
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.
Multiple protection mechanism failures in the Prisma Access Agent Data Loss Prevention (DLP) component for Windows allow a local user to bypass DLP policy enforcement controls.
The Prisma Access Agent on macOS is not affected.
A file deletion vulnerability in Palo Alto Networks PAN-OS® software enables an unauthenticated attacker with network access to the management web interface to delete files from a temporary directory.
The security risk posed by this issue is minimized by restricting access to the management web 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.
A privilege escalation vulnerability in Palo Alto Networks Cortex® XDR Broker VM enables a locally authenticated user to perform actions as the root user.
Multiple buffer overflow vulnerabilities in the User-ID Terminal Server Agent (TSA) component of Palo Alto Networks PAN-OS software allow an unauthenticated attacker with network access to cause a denial of service (DoS) condition or potentially execute arbitrary code by sending specially crafted network traffic.
The security risk posed by this issue is minimized when the User-ID Terminal Server Agent connectivity is restricted to only trusted internal IP addresses according to our recommended best practice deployment guidelines https://docs.paloaltonetworks.com/ngfw/help/10-2/user-identification/device-user-identification-terminal-services-agents#:~:text=To%20minimize%20security%20risk%2C%20restrict%20TS%20Agent%20connectivity%20to%20trusted%20internal%20IP%20addresses%20only. .
Panorama is not impacted by this vulnerability.
An IPv6 packet processing vulnerability in the dataplane of Palo Alto Networks PAN-OS® software enables an unauthenticated attacker to bypass firewall security policy enforcement, allowing network traffic that should be blocked to reach protected services.
Cloud NGFW and Panorama are not impacted by this vulnerability.
A server-side request forgery (SSRF) vulnerability in Palo Alto Networks PAN-OS software enables an authenticated administrator with network access to the management web interface to make unauthorized requests from the firewall to internal services.
The security risk posed by this issue is minimized when the management interface is restricted 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 .
Panorama, Cloud NGFW, and Prisma® Access are not impacted by this vulnerability.
An XML injection vulnerability in the Large Scale VPN (LSVPN) functionality of Palo Alto Networks PAN-OS® software enables an unauthenticated attacker with network access to inject malicious XML content, potentially leading to information disclosure or corruption of internal LSVPN satellite data.
Panorama, Cloud NGFW, and Prisma® Access are not impacted by this vulnerability.
Palo Alto Networks incorporated the following Chromium security fixes into our products:
https://chromereleases.googleblog.com/2025/10/stable-channel-update-for-desktop28.html
An authentication bypass vulnerability in Large Scale VPN ( LSVPN) functionality of Palo Alto Networks PAN-OS software allows an attacker with network access to bypass security restrictions and establish an unauthorized site-to-site VPN connection.
Panorama, Cloud NGFW, and Prisma® Access are not impacted by this vulnerability.