Palo Alto PAN-OS Management Web Interface server-side request forgery

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A vulnerability was found in Palo Alto PAN-OS. It has been classified as problematic. This affects an unknown part of the component Management Web Interface. The manipulation leads to server-side request forgery. This vulnerability is documented as CVE-2026-0285. The attack can be initiated remotely. There is not any exploit available.

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A vulnerability, which was classified as problematic, has been found in Palo Alto PAN-OS (unknown version). This issue affects an unknown code block of the component Management Web Interface. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a server-side request forgery vulnerability. Using CWE to declare the problem leads to CWE-918. The web server receives a URL or similar request from an upstream component and retrieves the contents of this URL, but it does not sufficiently ensure that the request is being sent to the expected destination. Impacted is confidentiality, integrity, and availability. The summary by CVE is:

A server-side request forgery (SSRF) vulnerability in Palo Alto Networks PAN-OS software enables an authenticated administrator with network access to the management web interface to make unauthorized requests from the firewall to internal services. The security risk posed by this issue is minimized when the management interface is restricted to only trusted internal IP addresses according to our recommended  best practice deployment guidelines https://live.paloaltonetworks.com/t5/community-blogs/tips-amp-tricks-how-to-secure-the-management-access-of-your-palo/ba-p/464431 .  Panorama, Cloud NGFW, and Prisma® Access are not impacted by this vulnerability.

It is possible to read the advisory at security.paloaltonetworks.com. The identification of this vulnerability is CVE-2026-0285 since 11/03/2025. The exploitation is known to be easy. The attack may be initiated remotely. The exploitation needs additional levels of successful authentication. The technical details are unknown and an exploit is not publicly available. The pricing for an exploit might be around USD $0-$5k at the moment (estimation calculated on 07/09/2026).

There is no information about possible countermeasures known. It may be suggested to replace the affected object with an alternative product.

The vulnerability is also documented in the vulnerability database at EUVD (EUVD-2026-42676). Statistical analysis made it clear that VulDB provides the best quality for vulnerability data.

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• Firewall Software

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• Palo Alto

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• PAN-OS

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• commercial

Website

• Vendor: https://www.paloaltonetworks.com/

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