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CVE-2024-5916

PAN-OS: Cleartext Exposure of External System Secrets

At a glance

Severity
MEDIUM 6.0
EPSS
EPSS 0.25 % · percentile 16 (2026-10-27)
State
PUBLISHED
Published
Updated
Assigner
palo_alto
NVD status
Analyzed

Description

An information exposure vulnerability in Palo Alto Networks PAN-OS software enables a local system administrator to unintentionally disclose secrets, passwords, and tokens of external systems. A read-only administrator who has access to the config log, can read secrets, passwords, and tokens to external systems.

Scores

VersionScoreVectorScored by
CVSS 4.0MEDIUM 6.0CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:H/UI:P/VC:L/VI:N/VA:N/SC:H/SI:N/SA:N/AU:N/R:U/V:C/RE:H/U:Amberpalo_alto
CVSS 4.0MEDIUM 6.0CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:H/UI:P/VC:L/VI:N/VA:N/SC:H/SI:N/SA:N/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:H/U:AmberNVD · psirt@paloaltonetworks.com (Secondary)
CVSS 3.1MEDIUM 4.4CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:NNVD · nvd@nist.gov (Primary)

Weaknesses (CWE)

European references

CERT-FR advisories

Affected configurations (NVD CPE)

Affected products

ProductVersions
Palo Alto Networks · PAN-OSunaffected 9.1 ; unaffected 10.1 ; affected 10.2 < 10.2.8 ; affected 11.0 < 11.0.4 ; unaffected 11.1
Palo Alto Networks · Cloud NGFWaffected Before 8/15 ; unaffected On or after 8/15 ; affected Before 8/23 ; unaffected On or after 8/23
Palo Alto Networks · Prisma Accessunaffected All

References

Sources

SourceLicence
CVE List (CVEProject cvelistV5)CVE Program Terms of Use
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