CVE-2026-0233 (GCVE-0-2026-0233)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2026-04-13 07:17 – Updated: 2026-04-14 13:49
VLAI
Title
Autonomous Digital Experience Manager: Improper validation of ADEM certificate
Summary
A certificate validation vulnerability in Palo Alto Networks Autonomous Digital Experience Manager on Windows allows an unauthenticated attacker with adjacent network access to execute arbitrary code with NT AUTHORITY\SYSTEM privileges.
Severity
2 (Low)
CVSS:4.0/AV:P/AC:L/AT:P/PR:N/UI:N/VC:H/VI:H/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:U/AU:N/R:U/V:D/RE:M/U:Green
SSVC
Exploitation: none Automatable: no Technical Impact: total
CISA Coordinator (v2.0.3)
CWE
  • CWE-295 - Improper Certificate Validation
Assigner
References
Impacted products
Date Public
2026-04-08 16:00
Credits
David Fischer with OBI
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