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CVE-2012-6596

• Severity: medium (CVSS 5.0 v2.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 1.3% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2013-08-31 · updated 2026-06-16
• Weakness: CWE-255

Description

Palo Alto Networks PAN-OS 4.0.x before 4.0.9 and 4.1.x before 4.1.3 stores cleartext LDAP bind passwords in authd.log, which allows context-dependent attackers to obtain sensitive information by reading this file, aka Ref ID 35493.

Affected products

• Palo Alto Networks PAN-OS: 4.0.0, 4.0.1, 4.0.2, 4.0.3, 4.0.4, 4.0.5 (+6)

References

• https://security.paloaltonetworks.com/CVE-2012-6596
• https://security.paloaltonetworks.com/CVE-2012-6596

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