Authentication Bypass Vulnerability Affects Palo Alto Networks PAN-OS Software

CVE-2024-0012
9.8CRITICAL

Key Information

Status
Cloud Ngfw
Pan-os
Prisma Access
Vendor
CVE Published:
18 November 2024

Badges

🔥 No. 1 Trending😄 Trended👾 Exploit Exists🔴 Public PoC🟣 EPSS 97%📰 News Worthy

Summary

A critical vulnerability, CVE-2024-0012, affects Palo Alto Networks PAN-OS software, with an authentication bypass allowing unauthenticated attackers to gain administrator privileges. This could lead to administrative actions, configuration tampering, and other vulnerabilities being exploited. Another targeted vulnerability is CVE-2024-9474, which allows PAN-OS administrators to escalate their privileges and perform actions on the firewall with root privileges. The exploitation of these vulnerabilities poses a significant risk, and attackers have been actively exploiting them in a small number of management web interfaces exposed to the internet. Therefore, action must be taken by affected organizations to secure and update their systems.

CISA Reported

CISA provides regional cyber and physical services to support security and resilience across the United States. CISA monitor the most dangerious vulnerabilities and have identifed CVE-2024-0012 as being exploited but is not known by the CISA to be used in ransomware campaigns. This is subject to change at pace as recent news articles suggest the vulnerability is being used by ransomware groups.

The CISA's recommendation is: Apply mitigations per vendor instructions or discontinue use of the product if mitigations are unavailable. Additionally, management interface for affected devices should not be exposed to untrusted networks, including the internet.

Affected Version(s)

Cloud NGFW >= All

PAN-OS < 11.2.4-h1

PAN-OS < 11.1.5-h1

Exploit Proof of Concept (PoC)

PoC code is written by security researchers to demonstrate the vulnerability can be exploited. PoC code is also a key component for weaponization which could lead to ransomware.

News Articles

EPSS Score

97% chance of being exploited in the next 30 days.

CVSS V3.1

Score:
9.8
Severity:
CRITICAL
Confidentiality:
High
Integrity:
High
Availability:
High
Attack Vector:
Network
Attack Complexity:
Low
Privileges Required:
None
User Interaction:
None
Scope:
Unchanged

Timeline

  • 🔥

    Vulnerability reached the number 1 worldwide trending spot.

  • Vulnerability started trending.

  • First article discovered by Palo Alto Networks

  • CVE-2024-0012 assigned to this publication as the vulnerability is identified and fixed

  • Vulnerability published.

  • Answered a FAQ about indicators of compromise

  • Raised the severity of PAN-SA-2024-0015 bulletin as we have observed threat activity

  • Added instructions to find your devices with an internet-facing management interface discovered in our scans

  • Initially published as PAN-SA-2024-0015

  • Vulnerability Reserved.

  • 👾

    Exploit exists.

Collectors

NVD DatabaseMitre DatabaseCISA Database4 Proof of Concept(s)16 News Article(s)

Credit

Palo Alto Networks thanks our Deep Product Security Research Team for discovering this issue internally from threat activity.
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