Vulnerability · Published Oct 9, 2024 · Assigned by palo_alto

CVE-2024-9471PAN-OS: Privilege Escalation (PE) Vulnerability in XML API

Medium 5.1

In plain English

A medium-severity privilege mismanagement in Cloud NGFW from Palo Alto Networks. There are no confirmed reports of exploitation so far. The chance it is exploited in the next 30 days is estimated at 0.3% (higher than 22% of all known vulnerabilities).

Severity (CVSS 4.0)5.1Medium

Exploit odds (30 days)0.3%top 77.8% of all CVEs

Exploited in the wildNo reportsCISA SSVC: none

Attack toolingNoneno public tooling known

Official description

A privilege escalation (PE) vulnerability in the XML API of Palo Alto Networks PAN-OS software enables an authenticated PAN-OS administrator with restricted privileges to use a compromised XML API key to perform actions as a higher privileged PAN-OS administrator. For example, an administrator with "Virtual system administrator (read-only)" access could use an XML API key of a "Virtual system administrator" to perform write operations on the virtual system configuration even though they should be limited to read-only operations.

Affected products (as reported)

Vendor	Product	Versions
Palo Alto Networks	PAN-OS	11.0.0 – before 11.0.310.1.0 – before 10.1.1110.2.0 – before 10.2.89.19.0
Palo Alto Networks	Cloud NGFW	see references
Palo Alto Networks	Prisma Access	see references

Weakness: CWE-269 · Vector: CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:H/UI:N/VC:L/VI:L/VA:L/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/AU:N/R:A/V:D/RE:L/U:Green

References

https://security.paloaltonetworks.com/CVE-2024-9471 vendor-advisory