CVE-2016-9151 Privilege escalation in n/a
Local attackers can gain elevated privileges on PAN-OS firewalls by manipulating environment variables, requiring an upgrade to secure versions.
- Exploited in the wild
- Not known
- Login needed
- Any signed-in user
- Attackable
- Local or same network only
- Victim action needed
- Not needed
- Fix
- None listed
What is CVE-2016-9151?
CVE-2016-9151 is a high-severity vulnerability in Paloaltonetworks Pan-Os, published on 19 Nov 2016. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, with no action from the victim.
Official description
Palo Alto Networks PAN-OS before 5.0.20, 5.1.x before 5.1.13, 6.0.x before 6.0.15, 6.1.x before 6.1.15, 7.0.x before 7.0.11, and 7.1.x before 7.1.6 allows local users to gain privileges via crafted values of unspecified environment variables.
Weakness: CWE-264
Which versions are affected by CVE-2016-9151?
It affects 1 product.
Products include Paloaltonetworks Pan-Os.
How do I fix CVE-2016-9151?
No fix has been published for CVE-2016-9151 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.
Is CVE-2016-9151 being exploited?
It is not confirmed as exploited in the wild, but public exploit code for CVE-2016-9151 exists.
Public exploit code: 2 Exploit-DB entries.
Other vulnerabilities in Paloaltonetworks Pan-Os
- CVE-2024-3400 Palo Alto Networks PAN-OS Command Injection
- CVE-2020-2021 Palo Alto Networks PAN-OS Authentication Bypass
- CVE-2017-15944 Palo Alto Networks PAN-OS Remote Code Execution
- CVE-2026-0300 Palo Alto Networks PAN-OS Out-of-bounds Write
- CVE-2024-0012 Palo Alto Networks PAN-OS Management Interface Authentication Bypass
Sources
Also known as GHSA-48jw-g6cj-24gw.