CVE intelligence and bounded remediation

CVE-2026-0287 — Paloaltonetworks Cloud Ngfw security vulnerability

High CVSS 7.5

Multiple denial of service vulnerabilities in Palo Alto Networks PAN-OS® software allow an unauthenticated attacker with network access to cause a denial of service (DoS) condition by sending specially crafted network traffic to or through a dataplane interface. Repeated attempts to trigger this condition result in the firewall entering maintenance mode. Panorama is not impacted by these vulnerabilities.

Severity
High
CVSS
7.5 (3.1)
Published
2026-07-09
CISA KEV
Not currently listed
Ecosystem
software/application
Weaknesses
CWE-754

Affected products

  • paloaltonetworks / cloud_ngfw
  • paloaltonetworks / pan-os
  • paloaltonetworks / pan-os / 10.2.7

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Matched remediation archetype

Resource exhaustion and denial of service

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Check exposure

  • Identify attacker-influenced work factors including input size, nesting, compression, fan-out, regex cost, allocation, recursion, retries, and connection lifetime.
  • Map per-request and shared CPU, memory, disk, descriptor, thread, queue, and downstream-service limits.
  • Determine whether authentication, tenancy, quotas, and rate controls apply before expensive processing begins.

Remediate safely

  • Bound input size, nesting, expansion, work, concurrency, queue depth, retries, and execution time before resource-intensive processing.
  • Release resources on every success, error, cancellation, and timeout path and use backpressure instead of unbounded buffering.
  • Update affected components and add small deterministic tests that assert resource ceilings rather than exhausting a host.

Authoritative sources

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