CVE-2016-9151: Palo Alto Networks PAN-OS

High severity, CVSS 7.8. EPSS: 1.2% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Palo Alto Networks PAN-OS before 5.0.20, 5.1.x before 5.1.13, 6.0.x before 6.0.15, 6.1.x before 6.1.15, 7.0.x before 7.0.11, and 7.1.x before 7.1.6 allows local users to gain privileges via crafted values of unspecified environment variables.

Affected products

• Palo Alto Networks PAN-OS: from 5.0.0, before 5.0.20 (fixed in 5.0.20); from 5.1, before 5.1.13 (fixed in 5.1.13); from 6.0.0, before 6.0.15 (fixed in 6.0.15); from 6.1.0, before 6.1.15 (fixed in 6.1.15); from 7.0.0, before 7.0.11 (fixed in 7.0.11); from 7.1.0, before 7.1.6 (fixed in 7.1.6)

Published 2016-11-19. Last modified 2026-06-17.