CVE-2026-0244 (GCVE-0-2026-0244)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2026-05-13 19:03
Modified
2026-05-13 19:29
Severity ?
5.2 (Medium) - CVSS:4.0/AV:A/AC:L/AT:P/PR:N/UI:N/VC:H/VI:H/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:U/AU:Y/R:U/V:D/RE:M/U:Amber
CWE
  • CWE-295 - Improper Certificate Validation
Summary
An improper certificate validation vulnerability in the Palo Alto Networks Prisma SD-WAN ION enables man-in-the-middle (MitM) attacker to impersonate the controller.
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
Palo Alto Networks Prisma SD-WAN ION Version: 6.5.0   < 6.5.3-b15
Version: 6.4.0   < 6.4.3-b8
Version: 6.3.0   < 6.3.6-b10
Patch: 6.1.0
Patch: 5.6.0
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