CVE-2024-9463
Palo Alto Networks Expedition OS Command Injection Vulnerability
Does this matter?
Known to be exploited in the wild (CISA KEV, CISA remediation deadline 5 December 2024). Treat as an emergency change: patch or isolate now, then hunt for prior compromise.
Description
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
- 9.9 CRITICALCVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:H/VI:H/VA:H/SC:H/SI:N/SA:N/E:X/CR:X/IR:X/AR:X/MAV:X/MAC:X/MAT:X/MPR:X/MUI:X/MVC:X/M
- EPSS
- 98.55% probability · 100th percentile
- Public exploits
- None in Exploit-DB
- CISA KEV
- Listed 14 November 2024 · due 5 December 2024
- Weakness
- CWE-78
- Affected
- paloaltonetworks/expedition
- Source
- psirt@paloaltonetworks.com
EPSS 98.5% 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/PAN-SA-2024-0010 ; https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2024-9463
References
- https://security.paloaltonetworks.com/PAN-SA-2024-0010Mitigation, Vendor Advisory
- https://www.cisa.gov/known-exploited-vulnerabilities-catalog?field_cve=CVE-2024-9463US Government Resource
Source: NVD record, EPSS from FIRST.org, KEV from CISA, exploits from Exploit-DB. Refreshed daily. Download this record as JSON.