What’s Vulnerable › Vulnerabilities

CVE-2017-7945

• Severity: critical (CVSS 9.8 v3.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 1.8% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2017-04-29 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-209

Description

The GlobalProtect external interface in Palo Alto Networks PAN-OS before 6.1.17, 7.x before 7.0.15, 7.1.x before 7.1.9, and 8.x before 8.0.2 provides different error messages for failed login attempts depending on whether the username exists, which allows remote attackers to enumerate account names and conduct brute-force attacks via a series of requests, aka PAN-SA-2017-0014 and PAN-72769.

Affected products

• Palo Alto Networks PAN-OS: through 6.1.15; 7.0.0, 7.0.1, 7.0.2, 7.0.3, 7.0.4, 7.0.5 (+22)

References

• https://security.paloaltonetworks.com/CVE-2017-7945
• https://security.paloaltonetworks.com/CVE-2017-7945

Get alerted when CVE-2017-7945 or the next vulnerability affects your stack