CVE-2024-5910
Palo Alto Networks Expedition Missing Authentication Vulnerability
Does this matter?
Known to be exploited in the wild (CISA KEV, CISA remediation deadline 28 November 2024). Treat as an emergency change: patch or isolate now, then hunt for prior compromise.
Description
Missing authentication for a critical function in Palo Alto Networks Expedition can lead to an Expedition admin account takeover for attackers with network access to Expedition. Note: Expedition is a tool aiding in configuration migration, tuning, and enrichment. Configuration secrets, credentials, and other data imported into Expedition is at risk due to this issue.
- CVSS 4.0
- 9.3 CRITICALCVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:H/VI:H/VA:H/SC:L/SI:L/SA:L/E:X/CR:X/IR:X/AR:X/MAV:X/MAC:X/MAT:X/MPR:X/MUI:X/MVC:X/M
- EPSS
- 91.68% probability · 100th percentile
- Public exploits
- 1 in Exploit-DB · first 6 April 2025
- CISA KEV
- Listed 7 November 2024 · due 28 November 2024
- Weakness
- CWE-306
- Affected
- paloaltonetworks/expedition
- Source
- psirt@paloaltonetworks.com
EPSS 91.7% since 30 October 2026; no change recorded yet. The dashed line is the ten per cent mark our analysts treat as “patch before the next change window”. Points are recorded when the score first appears and whenever it moves by a percentage point or more.
CISA notes
Apply mitigations per vendor instructions or discontinue use of the product if mitigations are unavailable. https://security.paloaltonetworks.com/CVE-2024-5910 ; https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2024-5910
Public exploits (1)
Entries in Exploit-DB that cite this CVE. Links go to the Exploit-DB page and to the file in the public repository; nothing is hosted here. A verified tick means the Exploit-DB team confirmed the exploit works against the stated version.
References
- https://security.paloaltonetworks.com/CVE-2024-5910Vendor Advisory
- https://security.paloaltonetworks.com/CVE-2024-5910Vendor Advisory
- https://www.horizon3.ai/attack-research/palo-alto-expedition-from-n-day-to-full-compromiseExploit, Third Party Advisory
- https://www.cisa.gov/known-exploited-vulnerabilities-catalog?field_cve=CVE-2024-5910US Government Resource
Source: NVD record, EPSS from FIRST.org, KEV from CISA, exploits from Exploit-DB. Refreshed daily. Download this record as JSON.