CVE-2021-3050: Palo Alto Networks PAN-OS

High severity, CVSS 8.8. EPSS: 1.8% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

An OS command injection vulnerability in the Palo Alto Networks PAN-OS web interface enables an authenticated administrator to execute arbitrary OS commands to escalate privileges. This issue impacts: PAN-OS 9.0 version 9.0.10 through PAN-OS 9.0.14; PAN-OS 9.1 version 9.1.4 through PAN-OS 9.1.10; PAN-OS 10.0 version 10.0.7 and earlier PAN-OS 10.0 versions; PAN-OS 10.1 version 10.1.0 through PAN-OS 10.1.1. Prisma Access firewalls and firewalls running PAN-OS 8.1 versions are not impacted by this issue.

Affected products

• Palo Alto Networks PAN-OS: from 9.0.0, before 9.0.15 (fixed in 9.0.15); from 9.1.0, before 9.1.11 (fixed in 9.1.11); from 10.0.0, before 10.0.8 (fixed in 10.0.8); from 10.1.0, before 10.1.2 (fixed in 10.1.2)

Published 2021-08-11. Last modified 2026-06-17.