CVE-2026-0233 PUBLISHED

Autonomous Digital Experience Manager: Improper validation of ADEM certificate

Assigner: palo_alto
Reserved: 03.11.2025 Published: 13.04.2026 Updated: 13.04.2026

A certificate validation vulnerability in Palo Alto Networks Autonomous Digital Experience Manager on Windows allows an unauthenticated attacker with adjacent network access to execute arbitrary code with NT AUTHORITY\SYSTEM privileges.

Metrics

CVSS 4.0

CVSS Vector: CVSS:4.0/AV:P/AC:L/AT:P/PR:N/UI:N/VC:H/VI:H/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:U/AU:N/R:U/V:D/RE:M/U:Green
CVSS Score: 2

Exploitability Metrics		Vulnerable System Impact Metrics		Subsequent System Impact Metrics
Attack Vector	Physical	Confidentiality	High	Confidentiality	None
Attack Complexity	Low	Integrity	High	Integrity	None
Attack Requirements	Present	Availability	High	Availability	None
Privileges Required	None
User Interaction	None

CVSS 4.0

Product Status

Vendor	Palo Alto Networks
Product	Autonomous Digital Experience Manager
Versions	Default: unaffected affected from 5.10.0 to 5.10.14 (excl.)

Exploits

Palo Alto Networks is not aware of any malicious exploitation of this issue.

Credits

David Fischer with OBI finder

References

https://security.paloaltonetworks.com/CVE-2026-0233

Problem Types

CWE-295: Improper Certificate Validation CWE

Impacts

CAPEC-187 Malicious Automated Software Update