CVE-2017-7945: Palo Alto Networks PAN-OS

Critical severity, CVSS 9.8. EPSS: 1.8% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

The GlobalProtect external interface in Palo Alto Networks PAN-OS before 6.1.17, 7.x before 7.0.15, 7.1.x before 7.1.9, and 8.x before 8.0.2 provides different error messages for failed login attempts depending on whether the username exists, which allows remote attackers to enumerate account names and conduct brute-force attacks via a series of requests, aka PAN-SA-2017-0014 and PAN-72769.

Affected products

• Palo Alto Networks PAN-OS: up to and including 6.1.15; version 7.0.0 only; version 7.0.1 only; version 7.0.2 only; version 7.0.3 only; version 7.0.4 only; …

Published 2017-04-29. Last modified 2026-06-17.