CVE-2024-9463criticalunder attackCWE-78

CVE-2024-9463: critical vulnerability in Palo Alto Networks Expedition

Expedition: Unauthenticated OS Command Injection Vulnerability Leads to Firewall Credential Disclosure

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ssvc Actcvss 9.9epss 99%
from disclosure to weapon225 days
Published on NVDOct 9
1st PoC+225d
CISA KEV+36d
Official alert in Brazil

Brazil's federal government published an alert, recommendation or bulletin that cites this vulnerability.

  • CTIR Gov · ALERTA 24/2024Vulnerabilidades na solução Palo Alto Networks Expeditionread on gov.br ↗
Source: CTIR Gov (GSI) and CISC Gov.br, under the CC BY-ND 3.0 license.
Action required by CISAfederal deadline: 2024-12-05

Apply mitigations per vendor instructions or discontinue use of the product if mitigations are unavailable.

In short

A flaw in Palo Alto Networks Expedition allows anyone to run harmful commands on the system without logging in, exposing firewall passwords and security keys stored in plaintext.

Technical detail

Unauthenticated OS command injection via CWE-78 enables arbitrary command execution with root privileges in Expedition. An attacker can extract sensitive credentials including firewall usernames, cleartext passwords, configurations, and API keys without authentication.

Summary generated and translated by AI from the official description.

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An OS command injection vulnerability in Palo Alto Networks Expedition allows an unauthenticated attacker to run arbitrary OS commands as root in Expedition, resulting in disclosure of usernames, cleartext passwords, device configurations, and device API keys of PAN-OS firewalls.
CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:H/VI:H/VA:H/SC:H/SI:N/SA:N/AU:N/R:U/V:C/RE:H/U:Amber
Affected products
Palo Alto Networks · Expedition
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