CVE-2026-0263

PAN-OS: Remote Code Execution (RCE) in IKEv2 Processing

At a glance

Severity
HIGH 7.2
EPSS
EPSS 0.37 % · percentile 31 (2026-10-27)
State
PUBLISHED
Published
Updated
Assigner
palo_alto
NVD status
Analyzed

Description

A buffer overflow vulnerability in the IKEv2 processing of Palo Alto Networks PAN-OS® software allows an unauthenticated network-based attacker to execute arbitrary code with elevated privileges on the firewall, or cause a denial of service (DoS) condition. Panorama, Cloud NGFW, and Prisma® Access are not impacted by these vulnerabilities.

Scores

VersionScoreVectorScored by
CVSS 4.0HIGH 7.2CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:H/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:H/VI:H/VA:H/SC:L/SI:L/SA:N/E:U/AU:Y/R:U/V:C/RE:H/U:Redpalo_alto
CVSS 4.0HIGH 7.2CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:H/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:H/VI:H/VA:H/SC:L/SI:L/SA:N/E:U/CR:X/IR:X/AR:X/MAV:X/MAC:X/MAT:X/MPR:X/MUI:X/MVC:X/MVI:X/MVA:X/MSC:X/MSI:X/MSA:X/S:X/AU:Y/R:U/V:C/RE:H/U:RedNVD · psirt@paloaltonetworks.com (Secondary)
CVSS 3.1CRITICAL 9.8CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:HNVD · nvd@nist.gov (Primary)

Weaknesses (CWE)

European references

CERT-FR advisories

Affected configurations (NVD CPE)

Affected products

ProductVersions
Palo Alto Networks · Cloud NGFWunaffected All
Palo Alto Networks · PAN-OSaffected 12.1.0 < 12.1.7, 12.1.4-h5 ; affected 11.2.0 < 11.2.12, 11.2.10-h6, 11.2.7-h13, 11.2.4-h17 ; affected 11.1.0 < 11.1.15, 11.1.13-h5, 11.1.10-h25, 11.1.7-h6, 11.1.6-h32, 11.1.4-h33 ; unaffected 10.2.0
Palo Alto Networks · Prisma Accessunaffected All

References

Sources

SourceLicence
CVE List (CVEProject cvelistV5)CVE Program Terms of Use
EPSS (FIRST.org)FIRST — attribution requested
ENISA EUVDENISA — reproduction authorised, source acknowledged
CERT-FR (ANSSI)Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0
NVD (NIST) via fkie-cad/nvd-json-data-feedsPublic domain — this product uses data from the NVD API but is not endorsed or certified by the NVD