CVE-2024-2551

PAN-OS: Firewall Denial of Service (DoS) Using a Specially Crafted Packet

Severity
High 8.7
CVSS 4.0
Exploited
Not listed
EPSS
0.005
39.0th percentile
Discovered by
Third party
Published by the vendor
Published
Nov 14, 2024
Assigned by palo_alto

Description

A null pointer dereference vulnerability in Palo Alto Networks PAN-OS software enables an unauthenticated attacker to stop a core system service on the firewall by sending a crafted packet through the data plane that causes a denial of service (DoS) condition. Repeated attempts to trigger this condition result in the firewall entering maintenance mode.

Weakness: CWE-476

Affected products

Vendor Product Category Matched by
Palo Alto Networks Cloud NGFW Firewall / NGFW cna-assigner
Palo Alto Networks PAN-OS Firewall / NGFW cna-assigner
Palo Alto Networks Prisma Access SASE / SSE / Secure Web cna-assigner
Vendor-reported affected versions (3)
  • Palo Alto Networks · Cloud NGFW
  • Palo Alto Networks · PAN-OS
  • Palo Alto Networks · Prisma Access

Credit

a customer

Vendor remediation

This issue is fixed in PAN-OS 10.1.14, PAN-OS 10.2.4-h6, PAN-OS 10.2.5, PAN-OS 11.0.5, and all later PAN-OS versions.