CVE-2019-1581: Palo Alto Networks PAN-OS

Critical severity, CVSS 9.8. EPSS: 3.2% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

A remote code execution vulnerability in the PAN-OS SSH device management interface that can lead to unauthenticated remote users with network access to the SSH management interface gaining root access to PAN-OS. This issue affects PAN-OS 7.1 versions prior to 7.1.24-h1, 7.1.25; 8.0 versions prior to 8.0.19-h1, 8.0.20; 8.1 versions prior to 8.1.9-h4, 8.1.10; 9.0 versions prior to 9.0.3-h3, 9.0.4.

Affected products

• Palo Alto Networks PAN-OS: up to and including 7.1.24; from 8.0.0, up to and including 8.0.19; from 8.1.0, up to and including 8.1.9; from 9.0.0, up to and including 9.0.3

Published 2019-08-23. Last modified 2026-06-17.