CVE-2024-9474
Palo Alto Networks PAN-OS Management Interface OS Command Injection Vulnerability
Does this matter?
Known to be exploited in the wild (CISA KEV, CISA remediation deadline 9 December 2024). Treat as an emergency change: patch or isolate now, then hunt for prior compromise.
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. Cloud NGFW and Prisma Access are not impacted by this vulnerability.
- CVSS 4.0
- 6.9 MEDIUMCVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:H/UI:N/VC:N/VI:H/VA:N/SC:N/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
- 93.75% probability · 100th percentile
- Public exploits
- None in Exploit-DB
- CISA KEV
- Listed 18 November 2024 · due 9 December 2024 · used in ransomware campaigns
- Weakness
- CWE-78
- Affected
- paloaltonetworks/pan-os
- Source
- psirt@paloaltonetworks.com
EPSS moved from 93.8% on 25 October 2026 to 93.8% on 26 October 2026. The dashed line is the ten per cent mark our analysts treat as “patch before the next change window”.
CISA notes
Apply mitigations per vendor instructions or discontinue use of the product if mitigations are unavailable. Additionally, the management interfaces for affected devices should not be exposed to untrusted networks, including the internet. https://security.paloaltonetworks.com/CVE-2024-9474 ; https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2024-9474
References
- https://security.paloaltonetworks.com/CVE-2024-9474Vendor Advisory
- https://unit42.paloaltonetworks.com/cve-2024-0012-cve-2024-9474/Press/Media Coverage, Vendor Advisory
- https://github.com/k4nfr3/CVE-2024-9474Exploit
- https://labs.watchtowr.com/pots-and-pans-aka-an-sslvpn-palo-alto-pan-os-cve-2024-0012-and-cve-2024-9474/Exploit, Third Party Advisory
- https://www.cisa.gov/known-exploited-vulnerabilities-catalog?field_cve=CVE-2024-9474US Government Resource
Source: NVD record, EPSS from FIRST.org, KEV from CISA, exploits from Exploit-DB. Refreshed daily. Download this record as JSON.