Palo Alto Networks patches 'critical' vulnerability under active exploitation

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Palo Alto Networks patches ‘critical’ vulnerability under active exploitation

Palo Alto Networks has made patches available for addressing a maximum-severity vulnerability affecting several versions of its PAN-OS firewall software.

The cybersecurity giant, which disclosed the "critical" issue Friday, continued to say on its advisory page Monday morning that only a "limited number of attacks" exploiting the vulnerability have ...

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