CVE-2023-6791 PAN-OS: Plaintext Disclosure of External System Integration Credentials
🔗 CVE IDs covered (1)
📋 Description
A credential disclosure vulnerability in Palo Alto Networks PAN-OS software enables an authenticated read-only administrator to obtain the plaintext credentials of stored external system integrations such as LDAP, SCP, RADIUS, TACACS+, and SNMP from the web interface.
🎯 Affected products3
- PAN-OS
- Prisma Access
- Cloud NGFW
✅ Remediation
This issue is fixed in PAN-OS 8.1.24-h1, PAN-OS 9.0.17, PAN-OS 9.1.16, PAN-OS 10.0.12, PAN-OS 10.1.9, PAN-OS 10.2.4, PAN-OS 11.0.1, and all later PAN-OS versions. You should issue new credentials for the impacted external integrations after you upgrade your PAN-OS software to a fixed version to prevent the misuse of previously exposed credentials. Please note that customers impacted by the PAN-OS root and default certificate expiration issue must carefully select the fixed version of PAN-OS they upgrade their devices to when addressing this vulnerability to not reintroduce the certificate issue. More information and support for the certificate expiration issue in PAN-OS is available at https://live.paloaltonetworks.com/t5/customer-advisories/emergency-update-required-pan-os-root-and-default-certificate/ta-p/564672. Workarounds and mitigations: This issue requires the attacker to have authenticated access to the PAN-OS web interface. You can mitigate the impact of this issue by following the Best Practices for Securing Administrative Access in the PAN-OS technical documentation at https://docs.paloaltonetworks.com/best-practices.