CVE-2024-9474Medium

CVE-2024-9474 PAN-OS: Privilege Escalation (PE) Vulnerability in the Web Management Interface

Published
November 18, 2024
Last Modified
November 21, 2024

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CVE-2024-9474 →

📋 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. This issue is applicable to PAN-OS 10.1, PAN-OS 10.2, PAN-OS 11.0, PAN-OS 11.1, and PAN-OS 11.2 software on PA-Series, VM-Series, and CN-Series firewalls and on Panorama (virtual and M-Series) and WildFire appliances. Cloud NGFW and Prisma Access are not impacted by this vulnerability.

🎯 Affected products3

  • Cloud NGFW
  • PAN-OS
  • Prisma Access

✅ 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: * 10.1.3-h4 * 10.1.6-h9 * 10.1.8-h8 * 10.1.9-h14 * 10.1.10-h9 * 10.1.11-h10 * 10.1.12-h3 * 10.1.13-h5 * 10.1.14-h6 Workarounds and mitigations: Recommended mitigation—The vast majority of firewalls already follow Palo Alto Networks and industry best practices. However, if you haven’t already, we strongly recommend that you secure access to your management interface according to our best practice deployment guidelines. Specifically, you should restrict access to the management interface to only trusted internal IP addresses to prevent external access from the internet. Review information about how to secure management access to your Palo Alto Networks firewalls: * Palo Alto Networks LIVEcommunity article: https://live.paloaltonetworks.com/t5/community-blogs/tips-amp-tricks-how-to-secure-the-management-access-of-your-palo/ba-p/464431 * Palo Alto Networks official and more detailed technical documentation: https://docs.paloaltonetworks.com/best-practices/10-1/administrative-access-best-practices/administrative-access-best-practices/deploy-administrative-access-best-practices

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