CVE-2016-1712

HighCVSS 7.8/10Last modified Jun 17, 2026

Description

Palo Alto Networks PAN-OS before 5.0.19, 5.1.x before 5.1.12, 6.0.x before 6.0.14, 6.1.x before 6.1.12, and 7.0.x before 7.0.8 might allow local users to gain privileges by leveraging improper sanitization of the root_reboot local invocation.

Metrics

CVSS 3.0 7.8/10CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Weakness enumeration

CWE-20 CWE-264

Affected software

No affected versions have been published.

Timeline

Published: Aug 2, 2016
Last modified: Jun 17, 2026
NVD status: Modified

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