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🛡️ CVE-2026-0238 — broker-vm

🟢 CVSS 3.2 — Low ✅ No Known Exploit CWE-20 NVD
3.2
CVSS Score
0 Low4 Medium7 High9 Critical10

Description

A vulnerability in Palo Alto Networks Broker VM allows an authenticated administrator to inject arbitrary content into certain Broker VM fields.

How this vulnerability can be exploited

This issue can be reached with local access to the system, attack complexity is low, an attacker needs administrative privileges on the target. No user interaction is required. The scope is changed, meaning a successful attack can affect components beyond the vulnerable one. Rated impact: confidentiality none, integrity low, availability none.

CVSS metrics in full

The score comes from this vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:C/C:N/I:L/A:N

  • Attack vector: Local — a local account, shell or session on the host is needed.
  • Attack complexity: Low — the attack works reliably, with no preparation.
  • Privileges required: High — administrative rights are needed first.
  • User interaction: None — nobody has to be tricked into anything.
  • Scope: Changed — a successful attack reaches components beyond the vulnerable one.
  • Confidentiality impact: None.
  • Integrity impact: Low — limited, and the attacker does not choose what is affected.
  • Availability impact: None.

Weakness class

CVE-2026-0238 is classified as CWE-20: Improper Input Validation. The application accepts input without checking that it has the expected form, so malformed values reach code that assumes they are well formed.

Affected software

CVE-2026-0238 is recorded against 1 package.

  • broker-vm (from 30.0.0 up to 30.0.24)

Timeline and source

Published on 13 May 2026 and last revised on 13 July 2026. No public exploit is currently recorded for this entry. Record sourced from NVD.

References

security.paloaltonetworks.com

Same weakness in other software

These advisories are the same class of weakness (CWE-20: Improper Input Validation) in other software:

Details

Severity LOW
CVSS Score 3.2
CVSS Vector CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:C/C:N/I:L/A:N
CWE CWE-20
Public Exploit ✅ No
Source NVD
Published 2026-05-13
Updated 2026-08-20
Modified 2026-07-13
Fix URL N/A

Affected Packages

Software From version Fixed in
broker-vm 30.0.0 30.0.24

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