PAN-OS: Privilege Escalation (PE) Vulnerability in XML API
At a glance
Severity
MEDIUM 5.1
EPSS
EPSS 0.29 % · percentile 22 (2026-10-27)
State
PUBLISHED
Published
Updated
Assigner
palo_alto
NVD status
Analyzed
Description
A privilege escalation (PE) vulnerability in the XML API of Palo Alto Networks PAN-OS software enables an authenticated PAN-OS administrator with restricted privileges to use a compromised XML API key to perform actions as a higher privileged PAN-OS administrator. For example, an administrator with "Virtual system administrator (read-only)" access could use an XML API key of a "Virtual system administrator" to perform write operations on the virtual system configuration even though they should be limited to read-only operations.
