Authentication Bypass Vulnerability Affects Palo Alto Networks PAN-OS Software
Key Information
- Vendor
- Palo Alto Networks
- Status
- Cloud Ngfw
- Pan-os
- Prisma Access
- Vendor
- CVE Published:
- 18 November 2024
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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
it-daily CVE-2024-0012CVE-2024-9474Cyberattacks on Palo Alto Networks firewall devices
Several security breaches were observed at companies from different industries in which firewall devices from Palo Alto Network were involved.
2 weeks ago
TheCyberThrone CVE-2024-0012CVE-2024-9474PaloAlto devices are under massive exploitation
Researchers from Shadowserver have revealed that approximately 2,000 Palo Alto Networks firewalls have been compromised leavaraging recently discovered zeroday bugs. namely CVE-2024-0012 and CVE-2024-9474. This initial exploitation of the vulnerabilities has been named as “Operation Lunar Peek.” Pa...
2 weeks ago
CVE-2024-0012Thousands of PAN-OS devices compromised by critical exploits
Thousands of Palo Alto Networks firewalls were compromised by attackers exploiting two recently patched security bugs. The intruders were able to deploy web-accessible backdoors to remotely control the...
2 weeks ago
EPSS Score
97% chance of being exploited in the next 30 days.
CVSS V3.1
Timeline
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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.
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Exploit exists.