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CVE-2026-0261 PAN-OS: Authenticated Admin Command Injection Vulnerability
CVE-2026-0261 Published May 28, 2026
CVE-2026-0261
Affected products & platforms
Palo Alto NetworksPAN-OSFirewall
Summary
CVE-2026-0261 PAN-OS: Authenticated Admin Command Injection Vulnerability
Affected versions
- PAN-OS 12.1: < 12.1.4-h5< 12.1.7
- PAN-OS 11.2: < 11.2.4-h17< 11.2.7-h13< 11.2.10-h6< 11.2.12
- PAN-OS 11.1: < 11.1.4-h33< 11.1.6-h32< 11.1.7-h6< 11.1.10-h25< 11.1.13-h5< 11.1.15
- PAN-OS 10.2: < 10.2.7-h34< 10.2.10-h36< 10.2.13-h21< 10.2.16-h7< 10.2.18-h6
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Fixed versions
- PAN-OS >= 12.1.7
- PAN-OS >= 12.1.4-h5
- PAN-OS >= 11.2.12
- PAN-OS >= 11.2.10-h6
- PAN-OS >= 11.2.7-h13
- PAN-OS >= 11.2.4-h17
- PAN-OS >= 11.1.15
- PAN-OS >= 11.1.13-h5
- PAN-OS >= 11.1.10-h25
- PAN-OS >= 11.1.7-h6
- PAN-OS >= 11.1.6-h32
- PAN-OS >= 11.1.4-h33
- PAN-OS >= 10.2.18-h6
- PAN-OS >= 10.2.16-h7
- PAN-OS >= 10.2.13-h21
- PAN-OS >= 10.2.10-h36
- PAN-OS >= 10.2.7-h34
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Mitigation checklist
Recommended fix / mitigation
- VersionMinor VersionSuggested SolutionCloud NGFWNo action needed.
- PAN-OS 12.1 12.1.5 through 12.1.6 Upgrade to 12.1.7 or later. 12.1.2 through 12.1.4-h* Upgrade to 12.1.4-h5 or 12.1.7 or later.
Temporary workarounds
- The vast majority of firewalls already follow Palo Alto Networks' and industry best practices.
- However, if you have not already, we strongly recommend that you secure access to your management interface according to our best practice deployment guidelines.
- Specifically, you should restrict management interface access to only trusted internal IP addresses.
- Review information about how to secure management access to your Palo Alto Networks firewalls:
- For these Threat IDs to protect against attacks for this vulnerability:
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