CVE-2012-6596: Palo Alto Networks PAN-OS

Medium severity, CVSS 5.0. EPSS: 1.3% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Palo Alto Networks PAN-OS 4.0.x before 4.0.9 and 4.1.x before 4.1.3 stores cleartext LDAP bind passwords in authd.log, which allows context-dependent attackers to obtain sensitive information by reading this file, aka Ref ID 35493.

Affected products

• Palo Alto Networks PAN-OS: version 4.0.0 only; version 4.0.1 only; version 4.0.2 only; version 4.0.3 only; version 4.0.4 only; version 4.0.5 only; …

Published 2013-08-31. Last modified 2026-06-16.