CyberCVE

CVE-2024-0012

PAN-OS: Authentication Bypass in the Management Web Interface (PAN-SA-2024-0015)

Severity
Critical 9.3
CVSS 4.0
Exploited
Yes — in CISA KEV
Added Nov 18, 2024 · known ransomware use
EPSS
0.997
100.0th percentile
Discovered by
Third party
Published by the vendor
Published
Nov 18, 2024
Assigned by palo_alto

Description

An authentication bypass in Palo Alto Networks PAN-OS software enables an unauthenticated attacker with network access to the management web interface to gain PAN-OS administrator privileges to perform administrative actions, tamper with the configuration, or exploit other authenticated privilege escalation vulnerabilities like CVE-2024-9474 https://security.paloaltonetworks.com/CVE-2024-9474 . The risk of this issue is greatly reduced if you secure access to the management web interface by restricting access to only trusted internal IP addresses according to our recommended  best practice deployment guidelines https://live.paloaltonetworks.com/t5/community-blogs/tips-amp-tricks-how-to-secure-the-management-access-of-your-palo/ba-p/464431 . This issue is applicable only to PAN-OS 10.2, PAN-OS 11.0, PAN-OS 11.1, and PAN-OS 11.2 software. Cloud NGFW and Prisma Access are not impacted by this vulnerability.

Weakness: CWE-306

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

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

Vendor remediation

We strongly recommend that you secure access to your management interface following the instructions in the workarounds section below. This issue is fixed in 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

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