CVE-2026-0300
Essential information
- Published
- 06/05/2026 02:00
- Modified
- 15/05/2026 16:47
- Author
- The MITRE Corporation
- Creator
- The MITRE Corporation
- CVSS
- 9.8 CRITICAL (v3.1) 9.3 CRITICAL (v4.0)
- CISA KEV
- Yes
- CWE
- CWE-787
- CVSS vector
-
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CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:HCVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:H/VI:H/VA:H/SC:L/SI:L/SA:N
CVSS metrics
- Access vector
- —
- Access complexity
- —
- Authentication
- —
- Confidentiality impact
- —
- Integrity impact
- —
- Availability impact
- —
- Exploitability
- —
- Remediation level
- —
- Report confidence
- —
- Temporal score
- —
- Attack vector
- Network
- Attack complexity
- Low
- Privileges required
- None
- User interaction
- None
- Scope
- Unchanged
- Confidentiality impact
- High
- Integrity impact
- High
- Availability impact
- High
- Exploit code maturity
- —
- Remediation level
- —
- Report confidence
- —
- Temporal score
- —
- Attack vector
- Network
- Attack complexity
- Low
- Attack requirements
- None
- Privileges required
- None
- User interaction
- None
- Confidentiality (V)
- High
- Confidentiality (S)
- Low
- Integrity (V)
- High
- Integrity (S)
- Low
- Availability (V)
- High
- Availability (S)
- None
- Exploit maturity
- ATTACKED
Description
A buffer overflow vulnerability in the User-ID™ Authentication Portal (aka Captive Portal) service of Palo Alto Networks PAN-OS software allows an unauthenticated attacker to execute arbitrary code with root privileges on the PA-Series and VM-Series firewalls by sending specially crafted packets.
The risk of this issue is greatly reduced if you secure access to the User-ID™ Authentication Portal per the best practice guidelines https://knowledgebase.paloaltonetworks.com/KCSArticleDetail by restricting access to only trusted internal IP addresses.
Prisma Access, Cloud NGFW and Panorama appliances are not impacted by this vulnerability.
NVD status
- Status
- Received — CVE has been recently published to the CVE List and has been received by the NVD.
- Source
- [email protected]
- NVD
- View on NVD
Affected products (CPE)
| Product | CPE |
|---|---|
| palo alto networks / pan-os | cpe:2.3:a:palo_alto_networks:pan-os:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |