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access to the management interface to only trusted internal IP addresses according to our recommended best practice deployment guidelines (https://live.paloaltonetworks.com/t5/community-blogs/tips-amp-tricks-how-to-secure-the-management-access-of-your-palo/ba-p/464431).\n\nThis issue is applicable to PAN-OS software on PA-Series and VM-Series firewalls and on Panorama (virtual and M-Series).\n\nCloud NGFW, and Prisma® Access are not impacted by this vulnerability."}],"references":[{"category":"external","summary":"NVD - CVE-2026-0272","url":"https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-0272"},{"category":"self","summary":"Palo Alto Networks Security Advisory CVE-2026-0272","url":"https://security.paloaltonetworks.com/CVE-2026-0272"}],"threats":[{"category":"impact","description":"A privilege escalation vulnerability in Palo Alto Networks PAN-OS® software allows an authenticated administrator with access to the Command Line Interface (CLI) to perform actions on the device with root 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