CVE-2016-1712

HIGH

Palo Alto Networks PAN-OS <7.0.8 - Privilege Escalation

Title source: llm

Description

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.

References (2)

Core 2

Core References

Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry vdb-entry x_refsource_sectrack

http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1036326

Various Sources x_refsource_confirm

https://security.paloaltonetworks.com/CVE-2016-1712

Scores

CVSS v3 7.8

EPSS 0.0005

EPSS Percentile 14.4%

Attack Vector LOCAL

CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Details

CWE

CWE-20 CWE-264

Status published

Products (1)

paloaltonetworks/pan-os 5.0.0 - 5.0.19

Published Aug 02, 2016

Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026