CyberCVE

CVE-2024-9474

PAN-OS: Privilege Escalation (PE) Vulnerability in the Web Management Interface

Severity
Medium 6.9
CVSS 4.0
Exploited
Yes — in CISA KEV
Added Nov 18, 2024 · known ransomware use
EPSS
0.948
99.9th percentile
Discovered by
Third party
Published by the vendor
Published
Nov 18, 2024
Assigned by palo_alto

Description

A privilege escalation vulnerability in Palo Alto Networks PAN-OS software allows a PAN-OS administrator with access to the management web interface to perform actions on the firewall with root privileges. Cloud NGFW and Prisma Access are not impacted by this vulnerability.

Weakness: CWE-78

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 (8)
  • Palo Alto Networks · Cloud NGFW
  • Palo Alto Networks · PAN-OS
  • Palo Alto Networks · Prisma Access
  • paloaltonetworks · pan-os
  • paloaltonetworks · pan-os
  • paloaltonetworks · pan-os
  • paloaltonetworks · pan-os
  • paloaltonetworks · pan-os

Credit

Palo Alto Networks thanks our Deep Product Security Research Team for discovering this issue internally from threat activity.

Vendor remediation

This issue is fixed in PAN-OS 10.1.14-h6, PAN-OS 10.2.12-h2, PAN-OS 11.0.6-h1, PAN-OS 11.1.5-h1, PAN-OS 11.2.4-h1, and all later PAN-OS versions. In addition, in an attempt to provide the most seamless upgrade path for our customers, we are making fixes available for other TAC-preferred and commonly deployed maintenance releases. * Additional PAN-OS 11.2 fixes: * ​​11.2.0-h1 * 11.2.1-h1 * 11.2.2-h2 * 11.2.3-h3 * 11.2.4-h1 * Additional PAN-OS 11.1 fixes: * 11.1.0-h4 * 11.1.1-h2 * 11.1.2-h15 * 11.1.3-h11 * 11.1.4-h7 * 11.1.5-h1 * Additional PAN-OS 11.0 fixes: * 11.0.0-h4 * 11.0.1-h5 * 11.0.2-h5 * 11.0.3-h13 * 11.0.4-h6 * 11.0.5-h2 * 11.0.6-h1 * Additional PAN-OS 10.2 fixes: * 10.2.0-h4 * 10.2.1-h3 * 10.2.2-h6 * 10.2.3-h14 * 10.2.4-h32 * 10.2.5-h9 * 10.2.6-h6 * 10.2.7-h18 * 10.2.8-h15 * 10.2.9-h16 * 10.2.10-h9 * 10.2.11-h6 * 10.2.12-h2 * Additional PAN-OS 10.1 fixes: * 10.1.9-h14 * 10.1.10-h9 * 10.1.11-h10 * 10.1.12-h3 * 10.1.13-h5 * 10.1.14-h6

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