Palo Alto's May advisory reports exploit attempts on a GlobalProtect VPN bypass for cookie-enabled firewalls
Palo Alto Networks' May 13, 2026 advisory for CVE-2026-0257 rates the 7.8-score GlobalProtect bypass at highest urgency after limited exploit attempts. Exposure needs authentication override cookies plus a specific certificate setup, and the fix costs users one re-login.
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Palo Alto Networks patched CVE-2026-0322 (CVSS 8.6), a PAN-OS management RCE it says is under limited exploitation. CISA gave federal agencies until October 17; exploiting it takes a valid login and network access to the management interface.
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CISA added four exploited flaws in PAN-OS, Cisco Secure Email Gateway and AhsayCBS to KEV with an October 17 federal deadline. We would take the Cisco gateway first, then AhsayCBS servers already patched once, then PAN-OS.
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buildOne report1 publisher FortiOS blocks central NAT while a single policy still references a VIP
Moving an ASA or PAN-OS rulebase onto a FortiGate means picking the NAT model on an empty appliance, because the toggle that gives back one shared NAT table is gated on every VIP and IP pool reference in the policy set.
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Sixteen Metasploit modules reduce this quarter's advisories to one-command checks
Rapid7 describes eleven of the sixteen additions, and eight of those are scanners rather than exploits. The unauthenticated file reads and SQL injections carry the real pressure this quarter, well ahead of the two Tenable modules.
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Unit 42's Credential Brief: Hunt The Login That Succeeds Right After The Failures
TheHatman's claimed Entra haul and the FortiBleed spraying wave share one detectable seam: a successful authentication landing just behind a spike of failures.
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- Evidence46
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- Hype gap+12
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