CVE-2024-5918

PAN-OS: Improper Certificate Validation Enables Impersonation of a Legitimate GlobalProtect User

At a glance

Severity: MEDIUM 5.3
EPSS: EPSS 0.18 % · percentile 7 (2026-10-27)
State: PUBLISHED
Published: 2024-11-14
Updated: 2024-11-14
Assigner: palo_alto
NVD status: Analyzed

Description

An improper certificate validation vulnerability in Palo Alto Networks PAN-OS software enables an authorized user with a specially crafted client certificate to connect to an impacted GlobalProtect portal or GlobalProtect gateway as a different legitimate user. This attack is possible only if you "Allow Authentication with User Credentials OR Client Certificate."

Scores

Version	Score	Vector	Scored by
CVSS 4.0	MEDIUM 5.3	CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:L/UI:N/VC:N/VI:L/VA:N/SC:L/SI:L/SA:L/AU:N/R:A/V:C/RE:M/U:Amber	palo_alto
CVSS 4.0	MEDIUM 5.3	CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:L/UI:N/VC:N/VI:L/VA:N/SC:L/SI:L/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:A/V:C/RE:M/U:Amber	NVD · psirt@paloaltonetworks.com (Secondary)
CVSS 3.1	MEDIUM 4.3	CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N	NVD · nvd@nist.gov (Primary)

Weaknesses (CWE)

CWE-295

European references

ENISA EUVD · EUVD-2024-47049
GCVE · GCVE-0-2024-5918

CERT-FR advisories

CERTFR-2024-AVI-0986 — Multiples vulnérabilités dans les produits Palo Alto Networks · cert.ssi.gouv.fr

Affected configurations (NVD CPE)

cpe:2.3:o:paloaltonetworks:pan-os:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* ≥ 10.1.0 < 10.1.11
cpe:2.3:o:paloaltonetworks:pan-os:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* ≥ 10.2.0 ≤ 10.2.4
cpe:2.3:o:paloaltonetworks:pan-os:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* ≥ 11.0.0 < 11.0.3
cpe:2.3:o:paloaltonetworks:pan-os:10.2.4:-:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:o:paloaltonetworks:pan-os:10.2.4:h2:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:o:paloaltonetworks:pan-os:10.2.4:h3:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:o:paloaltonetworks:pan-os:10.2.4:h4:*:*:*:*:*:*

Affected products

Product	Versions
Palo Alto Networks · Cloud NGFW	unaffected All
Palo Alto Networks · PAN-OS	unaffected 11.2.0 ; unaffected 11.1.0 ; affected 11.0.0 < 11.0.3 ; affected 10.2.0 < 10.2.4-h5 ; affected 10.1.0 < 10.1.11
Palo Alto Networks · Prisma Access	unaffected All

References

https://security.paloaltonetworks.com/CVE-2024-5918

Sources

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