CVE-2016-9151 is a local privilege escalation vulnerability affecting multiple versions of Palo Alto Networks PAN-OS, allowing local users to gain elevated privileges through crafted environment variables. With a CVSS score of 7.8 (HIGH), successful exploitation grants high impact to confidentiality, integrity, and availability. While not listed on the KEV catalog, public exploit code exists on ExploitDB, and the vulnerability has garnered community discussion and media coverage, indicating awareness among researchers.
| Vendor | Product | Version(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 version used by this source: 3.0
CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
No social media mentions found for this CVE.
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The average CVE in this peer group has 0.3 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.
Remediation records are not available for this CVE.