CVE-2024-3393

PAN-OS: Firewall Denial of Service (DoS) in DNS Security Using a Specially Crafted Packet

At a glance

Severity
HIGH 8.7
Exploitation
Known exploited (CISA KEV) · added 2024-12-30
Exploited per ENISA since 2024-12-30
EPSS
EPSS 29.12 % · percentile 98 (2026-10-27)
State
PUBLISHED
Published
Updated
Assigner
palo_alto
NVD status
Analyzed

Description

A Denial of Service vulnerability in the DNS Security feature of Palo Alto Networks PAN-OS software allows an unauthenticated attacker to send a malicious packet through the data plane of the firewall that reboots the firewall. Repeated attempts to trigger this condition will cause the firewall to enter maintenance mode.

Scores

VersionScoreVectorScored by
CVSS 4.0HIGH 8.7CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:L/AU:N/R:U/V:C/RE:M/U:Amberpalo_alto
CVSS 4.0HIGH 7.1CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:L/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:L/AU:N/R:U/V:C/RE:M/U:Amberpalo_alto
CVSS 4.0HIGH 8.7CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:L/E:X/CR:X/IR:X/AR:X/MAV:X/MAC:X/MAT:X/MPR:X/MUI:X/MVC:X/MVI:X/MVA:X/MSC:X/MSI:X/MSA:X/S:X/AU:N/R:U/V:C/RE:M/U:AmberNVD · psirt@paloaltonetworks.com (Secondary)
CVSS 3.1HIGH 7.5CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:HNVD · nvd@nist.gov (Primary)

Weaknesses (CWE)

European references

CERT-FR advisories

Affected configurations (NVD CPE)

Affected products

ProductVersions
Palo Alto Networks · Cloud NGFWunaffected All
Palo Alto Networks · PAN-OSaffected 11.2.0 < 11.2.3 ; affected 11.1.0 < 11.1.2-h16 ; affected 10.2.8 < 10.2.8-h19 ; affected 10.1.14 < 10.1.14-h8
Palo Alto Networks · PAN-OSunaffected 10.2.0 < 10.2.8 ; affected 11.2.0 < 11.2.3

References

Sources

SourceLicence
CVE List (CVEProject cvelistV5)CVE Program Terms of Use
CISA Known Exploited VulnerabilitiesCC0 1.0
EPSS (FIRST.org)FIRST — attribution requested
ENISA EUVDENISA — reproduction authorised, source acknowledged
CERT-FR (ANSSI)Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0
NVD (NIST) via fkie-cad/nvd-json-data-feedsPublic domain — this product uses data from the NVD API but is not endorsed or certified by the NVD