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CVE-2016-9150

53
FAUCET Score

CVE-2016-9150 describes a critical buffer overflow vulnerability in the management web interface of Palo Alto Networks PAN-OS, affecting multiple versions prior to their respective patches. This flaw allows unauthenticated remote attackers to execute arbitrary code with high impact on confidentiality, integrity, and availability, as indicated by its CVSS score of 9.8. While not listed in CISA KEV, a public exploit (EDB-40790) exists, and the vulnerability has garnered some community discussion and media coverage, suggesting awareness among threat actors.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
>= 5.0.0, < 5.0.20CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:paloaltonetworks:pan-os:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
>= 5.1, < 5.1.13CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:paloaltonetworks:pan-os:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
>= 6.0.0, < 6.0.15CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:paloaltonetworks:pan-os:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
>= 6.1.0, < 6.1.15CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:paloaltonetworks:pan-os:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
>= 7.0.0, < 7.0.11CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:paloaltonetworks:pan-os:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 3.0

9.8CRITICAL

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

Attack Vector
NETWORK
Attack Complexity
LOW
Privileges Required
NONE
User Interaction
NONE
Scope
UNCHANGED
Confidentiality Impact
HIGH
Integrity Impact
HIGH
Availability Impact
HIGH
Exploitability Score
3.9
Impact Score
5.9
CvssVersion
3.0

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
34.78%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
98.3%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-25
Model: v2026.06.15
ExploitDB: EDB-40790 · Nov 18, 2016
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.3478 is in the 95th percentile among its peer group of 36,833 CVEs.

Social Chatter

No social media mentions found for this CVE.

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.1 Reddit, 0.3 Bluesky, 0.3 Mastodon, and 2.4 GitHub mentions.

Media Mentions

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.3 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.

Remediation

Remediation records are not available for this CVE.

References

security.paloaltonetworks.com / CVE-2016-9150
exploit-db.com / exploits/40790
Third Party AdvisoryVDB Entry
securityfocus.com / bid/94399
Third Party AdvisoryVDB Entry
securitytracker.com / id/1037382
Third Party AdvisoryVDB Entry