CVE-2024-9471

Summary

A privilege escalation (PE) vulnerability in the XML API of Palo Alto Networks PAN-OS software enables an authenticated PAN-OS administrator with restricted privileges to use a compromised XML API key to perform actions as a higher privileged PAN-OS administrator. For example, an administrator with "Virtual system administrator (read-only)" access could use an XML API key of a "Virtual system administrator" to perform write operations on the virtual system configuration even though they should be limited to read-only operations.

Affected Software

VendorProductVersion RangeStatus
Palo Alto NetworksPAN-OS11.1.0unaffected
Palo Alto NetworksPAN-OS11.0.0 < 11.0.3affected
Palo Alto NetworksPAN-OS10.1.0 < 10.1.11affected
Palo Alto NetworksPAN-OS10.2.0 < 10.2.8affected
Palo Alto NetworksPAN-OS9.1affected
Palo Alto NetworksPAN-OS9.0affected
Palo Alto NetworksCloud NGFWAllunaffected
Palo Alto NetworksPrisma AccessAllunaffected

Weaknesses

  • CWE-269: CWE-269 Improper Privilege Management

Workarounds

This issue requires the attacker to have authenticated access to the PAN-OS XML API. You can mitigate the effect this issue has on your environment by following the Administrative Access Best Practices in the PAN-OS technical documentation at https://docs.paloaltonetworks.com/best-practices .

ADP Enrichment

CISA ADP Vulnrichment

  • SSVC:
  • Exploitation: none
    • Automatable: no
    • Technical Impact: total

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