NVD / CVE Program· CNA palo_alto

CVE-2026-0309: PAN-OS: Authenticated Command Injection in CLI with Luna HSM Configuration

Noroxi assessment

Priority: Monitor (action score 16/100)

The sources we track (CISA KEV, Exploit-DB, Metasploit, Nuclei, GitHub) show no public exploit code or exploitation in the wild.
Probability of exploitation in the next 30 days: 0.78% (FIRST EPSS); higher than 55.9% of all records.
Someone with local access to the system can trigger it. Administrator privileges are required. No user action is required. No special conditions are required; it is repeatable.
Fixed version: Palo Alto Networks PAN-OS 10.2.10-h40, 10.2.13-h24, 10.2.16-h10.

Low priority for now. Upgrade to Palo Alto Networks PAN-OS 10.2.10-h40, 10.2.13-h24, 10.2.16-h10 or later.

Generated automatically from the record's data: CVSS (NVD and CNA), CISA KEV and SSVC, FIRST EPSS, exploit sources, fixed versions. How we calculate it

Primary sources: NVD · CVE.org · FIRST EPSS

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 CLI and the device must be configured with a Luna Hardware Security Module (HSM). The security risk posed by this issue is significantly minimized when CLI access is restricted to a limited group of administrators. Panorama, Cloud NGFW, and Prisma® Access are not impacted by this vulnerability.

MediumCVSS 4.0 · v4.0—No exploit Fix available

Published: Sep 10, 2026
Updated: Oct 15, 2026
EPSS: 0.7% · 55th percentile
CWE: CWE-78

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Monitor

Low priority for now.

CVSS: 16 / 40 · 4.0 / 10
CISA KEV: 0 / 30 · Not listed
EPSS: 0 / 30 · 0.7%

CISA SSVC decision

Exploitation: none
Automatable: no
Technical impact: total

Vulnrichment: CISA's decision-tree inputs.

CNA vs NVD score

NVD: —
CNA · palo_alto: 4.0; NVD has not scored this yet; the score shown is the CNA’s.

CVSS:4.0/AV:L/AC:L/AT:P/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:Amber

The score given by the assigning authority versus NVD’s independent score. A gap means the severity is contested.

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Affected systems

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Versions reported by the vendor

Affected version ranges reported by the assigning authority (palo_alto). Independent of NVD's CPE analysis and usually ahead of it.

Palo Alto Networks Cloud NGFW
- Allnot affected
Palo Alto Networks PAN-OS
- 12.2.0 and later · before 12.2.3affectedfixed in 12.2.3
- 12.1.0 and later · before 12.1.4-h10affectedfixed in 12.1.10, 12.1.7-h5, 12.1.4-h10
- 11.2.0 and later · before 11.2.4-h21affectedfixed in 11.2.13-h2, 11.2.10-h14, 11.2.7-h20, 11.2.4-h21
- 11.1.0 and later · before 11.1.4-h36affectedfixed in 11.1.16-h2, 11.1.13-h12, 11.1.10-h33, 11.1.7-h10, 11.1.6-h38, 11.1.4-h36
- 10.2.0 and later · before 10.2.7-h37affectedfixed in 10.2.18-h10, 10.2.16-h10, 10.2.13-h24, 10.2.10-h40, 10.2.7-h37
Palo Alto Networks Prisma Access
- All and later · before 12.1.4-h10not affectedfixed in 12.1.7-h5

Same product

palo alto networks: all records

Other highest-scoring records for the same primary product.

CVE-2025-0128PAN-OS: Firewall Denial of Service (DoS) Using a Specially Crafted Packet
34Monitor
CVE-2024-9472PAN-OS: Firewall Denial of Service (DoS) Using Specially Crafted Traffic
34Monitor
CVE-2025-4230PAN-OS: Authenticated Admin Command Injection Vulnerability Through CLI
33Monitor

Published before and after this one in the same product

← EarlierCVE-2026-0229Feb 11, 2026 · PAN-OS: Denial of Service in Advanced DNS Security Feature
26Monitor
← EarlierCVE-2026-0308Sep 10, 2026 · PAN-OS: Stored Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) Vulnerability in the Web Interface
4Monitor
Later →CVE-2026-0310Sep 10, 2026 · PAN-OS: Buffer Overflow Vulnerability via XML Processing
28Monitor

Remediation

Which version to upgrade to

Fix versions compiled from the vendor, package registries and Microsoft. Verify the vendor's note before upgrading.

Product / package	Fixed version	Source
Palo Alto Networks PAN-OS	10.2.10-h40	Vendor (CNA)
Palo Alto Networks PAN-OS	10.2.13-h24	Vendor (CNA)
Palo Alto Networks PAN-OS	10.2.16-h10	Vendor (CNA)
Palo Alto Networks PAN-OS	10.2.18-h10	Vendor (CNA)
Palo Alto Networks PAN-OS	10.2.7-h37	Vendor (CNA)
Palo Alto Networks PAN-OS	11.1.10-h33	Vendor (CNA)
Palo Alto Networks PAN-OS	11.1.13-h12	Vendor (CNA)
Palo Alto Networks PAN-OS	11.1.16-h2	Vendor (CNA)
Palo Alto Networks PAN-OS	11.1.4-h36	Vendor (CNA)
Palo Alto Networks PAN-OS	11.1.6-h38	Vendor (CNA)
Palo Alto Networks PAN-OS	11.1.7-h10	Vendor (CNA)
Palo Alto Networks PAN-OS	11.2.10-h14	Vendor (CNA)
Palo Alto Networks PAN-OS	11.2.13-h2	Vendor (CNA)
Palo Alto Networks PAN-OS	11.2.4-h21	Vendor (CNA)
Palo Alto Networks PAN-OS	11.2.7-h20	Vendor (CNA)
Palo Alto Networks PAN-OS	12.1.10	Vendor (CNA)
Palo Alto Networks PAN-OS	12.1.4-h10	Vendor (CNA)
Palo Alto Networks PAN-OS	12.1.7-h5	Vendor (CNA)
Palo Alto Networks PAN-OS	12.2.3	Vendor (CNA)

Exploit status

No known public exploit

No public exploit has been observed yet. That doesn't mean you're safe, only that the bar is a little higher.

Research context

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Timeline

From publication to today: proof of concept, Metasploit module, CISA KEV and fix record. Dates are as reported by the sources.

No dated events beyond publication.

EPSS, last 120 days

FIRST EPSS daily score; only changes of 0.01 or more are recorded (step chart).

Patch and commit links

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No commit or PR link among the references.

Credits

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François Rigaultfinder

Variant candidates

Same product, same weakness class, within 18 months. If the patch missed the root cause, the sibling bug is here.

CVE-2025-4230455 days apartPAN-OS: Authenticated Admin Command Injection Vulnerability Through CLI
33Monitor
CVE-2025-0127518 days apartPAN-OS: Authenticated Admin Command Injection Vulnerability in PAN-OS VM-Series
28Monitor
CVE-2026-032034 days apartPAN-OS: Authenticated Admin Command Injection Vulnerability
24Monitor

Chain candidates

An authentication bypass and a privilege-requiring bug in the same product, published close together: combined they may become an unauthenticated path.

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Bug bounty scope

No known public program.

Source: bounty-targets-data (public HackerOne, Bugcrowd, Intigriti, YesWeHack listings).

Technical details

Attack conditions

Someone with local access to the system can trigger it.
Administrator privileges are required.
No user action is required.
No special conditions are required; it is repeatable.

If successful

Confidentiality
Integrity
Availability

Attack vector: Local
Attack complexity: Low
Privileges required: High
User interaction: None
Scope: X

Weakness class (CWE)

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

CVSS vector

CVSS:4.0/AV:L/AC:L/AT:P/PR:H/UI:N/VC:H/VI:H/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:U/CR:X/IR:X/AR:X/MAV:X/MAC:X/MAT:X/MPR:X/MUI:X/MVC:X/MVI:X/MVA:X/MSC:X/MSI:X/MSA:X/S:X/AU:N/R:U/V:D/RE:M/U:Amber

nvd-secondary

Root cause

User input is inserted as text into a shell command. The shell may interpret special characters in the input as part of the command.

The bug in code

The whole CWE-78 class

A representative example of this vulnerability class. Not the vendor's source code; it shows the faulty pattern and its fix.

Vulnerable

1const host = req.body.host;
2exec("ping -c 1 " + host, onResult);

Fixed

1const host = req.body.host;
2if (!/^[a-z0-9.-]{1,253}$/i.test(host)) return res.sendStatus(400);
3execFile("ping", ["-c", "1", host], onResult);

Attack context

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Attack patterns (CAPEC)

ATT&CK techniques

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Change log

Fix✗ → ✓Sep 28, 2026, 10:10 PM UTC

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References

security.paloaltonetworks.com/CVE-2026-0309

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cert-portal.siemens.com/productcert/html/ssa-104023.html

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