CVE-2021-3047
PAN-OS: Weak Cryptography Used in Web Interface Authentication
- Published
- Updated
- Reserved
- Assigned by
- palo_alto
Description
A cryptographically weak pseudo-random number generator (PRNG) is used during authentication to the Palo Alto Networks PAN-OS web interface. This enables an authenticated attacker, with the capability to observe their own authentication secrets over a long duration on the PAN-OS appliance, to impersonate another authenticated web interface administrator's session. This issue impacts: PAN-OS 8.1 versions earlier than PAN-OS 8.1.19; PAN-OS 9.0 versions earlier than PAN-OS 9.0.14; PAN-OS 9.1 versions earlier than PAN-OS 9.1.10; PAN-OS 10.0 versions earlier than PAN-OS 10.0.4. PAN-OS 10.1 versions are not impacted.
Timeline
ID reserved
By palo_alto
- 7 months later
· 7 months later
Published
- 3 years later
· 3 years later
Record updated
Changes after publication (a new score, a public exploit, EPSS crossing 1, 10 or 50 %, leaving KEV) are kept since November 2026; earlier ones are not known.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| palo_altoCNA (assigner) | 3.1 | Medium4.2 | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:N |
| NVDNVD · Modified | 3.1 | Low3.1 | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 0.45% · top 61% of all CVEs (7 Nov 2026)
The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: Medium 4.2.
Weakness
Affected products
- unaffected 10.1.*
- affected 8.1 – < 8.1.19
- affected 9.0 – < 9.0.14
- affected 10.0 – < 10.0.4
- affected 9.1 – < 9.1.10
What to do
Solution: This issue is fixed in PAN-OS 8.1.19, PAN-OS 9.0.14, PAN-OS 9.1.10, PAN-OS 10.0.4, and all later PAN-OS versions.
Workaround: There are no known workarounds for this issue.
References (1)
- https://security.paloaltonetworks.com/CVE-2021-3047 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
Sources
The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.
- CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
- CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
- NVD (opens in a new tab)
- FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
- OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
- GitHub Advisories (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
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