CVE-2026-0257
Authentication bypass vulnerabilities in the GlobalProtect portal and gateway of Palo Alto Networks PAN-OS® software allows the attacker to bypass security restrictions and establish an unauthorized VPN connection. Panorama and Cloud NGFW are not impacted by these issues.
- Affected products
- Pan-Os
- Paloaltonetworks Pan-os
- < 10.2.7, 10.2.8, 10.2.9, 10.2.10, 10.2.11, 10.2.12, 10.2.13, 10.2.14, 10.2.15, 10.2.16, 10.2.17, 10.2.18, 11.1.0, 11.1.1, 11.1.2, 11.1.3, 11.1.4, 11.1.5, 11.1.6, 11.1.7, 11.1.8, 11.1.9, 11.1.10, 11.1.11, 11.1.12, 11.1.13, 11.1.14, 11.2.0, 11.2.1, 11.2.2, 11.2.3, 11.2.4, 11.2.5, 11.2.6, 11.2.7, 11.2.8, 11.2.9, 11.2.10, 11.2.11, 12.1.2
- CVSS 3.1
- 9.1 CRITICAL
- EPSS
- 93.9% (100th percentile)
- Weakness
- CWE-565
- NVD status
- Analyzed
- Published
- 2026-05-13
- Attack patterns
- CAPEC-114
- Entry point
- user request body
- Path
- /ssl-vpn/login.esp
Fix
Note:Â With this fix, if the firewall is configured to use an authentication override cookie for the GlobalProtect Portal or Gateway, it will regenerate the cookie using a more secure method. Therefore, GP users will need to re-authenticate after a PAN-OS upgrade, even if a valid cookie is present. This is a one time requirement. Once they re-authenticate after the upgrade, the authentication override cookie and its validity will work as they do today.
19 known exploits for CVE-2026-0257
Proof-of-concept code and exploit modules indexed by Sploitus