CVE-2016-1712: Palo Alto Networks PAN-OS

High severity, CVSS 7.8. EPSS: 0.4% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Palo Alto Networks PAN-OS before 5.0.19, 5.1.x before 5.1.12, 6.0.x before 6.0.14, 6.1.x before 6.1.12, and 7.0.x before 7.0.8 might allow local users to gain privileges by leveraging improper sanitization of the root_reboot local invocation.

Affected products

• Palo Alto Networks PAN-OS: from 5.0.0, before 5.0.19 (fixed in 5.0.19); from 5.1, before 5.1.12 (fixed in 5.1.12); from 6.0.0, before 6.0.14 (fixed in 6.0.14); from 6.1.0, before 6.1.12 (fixed in 6.1.12); from 7.0.0, before 7.0.8 (fixed in 7.0.8)

Published 2016-08-02. Last modified 2026-06-17.