CVE-2026-0259WildFire WF-500 and WF-500-B: Arbitrary File Read and Delete Vulnerability in WildFire Appliance (WF-500, WF-500-B)

Description

An arbitrary File Read and Delete Vulnerability in Palo Alto Networks WildFire® WF-500 and WF-500-B appliances enables users to read sensitive information and delete arbitrary files. This vulnerability affects WF-500 and WF-500-B appliances running in the default non-FIPS configuration mode. The WildFire Appliance (WF-500, WF-500-B) software update is now available to customers that use the WildFire Appliance (WF-500, WF-500-B) for on-premise sandboxing. Please note that customers using the WildFire Public cloud service are NOT impacted by this vulnerability.

Timeline

Scores

EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)

0.34% · top 73% of all CVEs (12 Nov 2026)

CISA SSVC

Exploitation: none · Automatable: no · Technical impact: partial

The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: Medium 5.0.

Affected products

• Palo Alto Networks · WildFire WF-500 and WF-500-B

  • affected 12.1.0 – < 12.1.7, 12.1.4-h5
  • affected 11.2.0 – < 11.2.11,11.2.7-h7
  • affected 11.1.0 – < 11.1.13,11.1.10-h8
  • affected 10.2.0 – < 10.2.18-h6, 10.2.16-h7, 10.2.13-h21, 10.2.10-h36, 10.2.7-h34

What to do

Solution: VERSION MINOR VERSION RANGE SUGGESTED SOLUTION WildFire WF-500 and WF-500-B 12.1 12.1.5 through 12.1.6 Upgrade to 12.1.7 or later. 12.1.2 through 12.1.4-h* Upgrade to 12.1.4-h5 or 12.1.7 or later. WildFire WF-500 and WF-500-B 11.2 11.2.11 or later Upgrade to 11.2.12 or later. 11.2.8 through 11.2.10-h* Upgrade to 11.2.10-h6 or 11.2.12 or later. 11.2.5 through 11.2.7-h* Upgrade to 11.2.7-h13 or 11.2.12 or later. 11.2.0 through 11.2.4-h* Upgrade to 11.2.4-h17 or 11.2.12 or later. WildFire WF-500 and WF-500-B 11.1 11.1.14 or later Upgrade to 11.1.15 or later. 11.1.11 through 11.1.13-h* Upgrade to 11.1.13-h5 or 11.1.15 or later. 11.1.8 through 11.1.10-h* Upgrade to 11.1.10-h25 or 11.1.15 or later. 11.1.7 through 11.1.7-h* Upgrade to 11.1.7-h6 or 11.1.15 or later. 11.1.5 through 11.1.6-h* Upgrade to 11.1.6-h32 or 11.1.15 or later. 11.1.0 through 11.1.4-h* Upgrade to 11.1.4-h33 or 11.1.15 or later. WildFire WF-500 and WF-500-B 10.2 10.2.17 through 10.2.18-h* Upgrade to 10.2.18-h6 or later. 10.2.14 through 10.2.16-h* Upgrade to 10.2.16-h7 or 10.2.18-h6 or later. 10.2.11 through 10.2.13-h* Upgrade to 10.2.13-h21 or 10.2.18-h6 or later. 10.2.8 through 10.2.10-h* Upgrade to 10.2.10-h36 or 10.2.18-h6 or later. 10.2.0 through 10.2.7-h* Upgrade to 10.2.7-h34 or 10.2.18-h6 or later. WildFire WF-500 and WF-500-B 10.1 All (EoL) No fix planned. Upgrade to a supported version.

Workaround: For airgapped deployments, we strongly recommend that you secure WildFire 500 appliances by restricting access to only trusted internal IP addresses. Customers with a Threat Prevention subscription can block attacks for this vulnerability by enabling Threat ID 510010 (Applications and Threats content version 9100-10044 and later). Please note that this Threat ID requires SSL Decryption.

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

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)
• EUVD EUVD-2026-30106 (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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Record last updated 13 May 2026, 18:57 UTC.