CVE-2024-9474

PAN-OS: Privilege Escalation (PE) Vulnerability in the Web Management Interface

At a glance

Severity: MEDIUM 6.9
Exploitation: Known exploited (CISA KEV) · added 2024-11-18
Exploited per ENISA since 2024-11-18
EPSS: EPSS 93.75 % · percentile 100 (2026-10-27)
State: PUBLISHED
Published: 2024-11-18
Updated: 2026-08-04
Assigner: palo_alto
NVD status: Analyzed

Description

A privilege escalation vulnerability in Palo Alto Networks PAN-OS software allows a PAN-OS administrator with access to the management web interface to perform actions on the firewall with root privileges. Cloud NGFW and Prisma Access are not impacted by this vulnerability.

Scores

Version	Score	Vector	Scored by
CVSS 4.0	MEDIUM 6.9	CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:H/UI:N/VC:N/VI:H/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/AU:N/R:U/V:C/RE:H/U:Red	palo_alto
CVSS 4.0	MEDIUM 5.9	CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:P/PR:H/UI:N/VC:N/VI:H/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/AU:N/R:U/V:C/RE:H/U:Red	palo_alto
CVSS 4.0	MEDIUM 6.9	CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:H/UI:N/VC:N/VI:H/VA:N/SC:N/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:Red	NVD · psirt@paloaltonetworks.com (Secondary)
CVSS 3.1	HIGH 7.2	CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H	NVD · nvd@nist.gov (Primary)

Weaknesses (CWE)

CWE-78

European references

ENISA EUVD · EUVD-2024-50354
GCVE · GCVE-0-2024-9474

CERT-FR advisories

CERTFR-2024-AVI-1001 — Vulnérabilité dans les produits Palo Alto Networks · cert.ssi.gouv.fr
CERTFR-2024-ALE-015 — [MàJ] Multiples vulnérabilités sur l'interface d'administration des équipements Palo Alto Networks · cert.ssi.gouv.fr

Affected configurations (NVD CPE)

cpe:2.3:o:paloaltonetworks:pan-os:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* ≥ 10.1.0 < 10.1.14
cpe:2.3:o:paloaltonetworks:pan-os:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* ≥ 10.2.0 < 10.2.12
cpe:2.3:o:paloaltonetworks:pan-os:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* ≥ 11.0.0 < 11.0.6
cpe:2.3:o:paloaltonetworks:pan-os:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* ≥ 11.1.0 < 11.1.5
cpe:2.3:o:paloaltonetworks:pan-os:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* ≥ 11.2.0 < 11.2.4
cpe:2.3:o:paloaltonetworks:pan-os:10.1.14:-:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:o:paloaltonetworks:pan-os:10.1.14:h2:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:o:paloaltonetworks:pan-os:10.1.14:h4:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:o:paloaltonetworks:pan-os:10.2.12:-:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:o:paloaltonetworks:pan-os:10.2.12:h1:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:o:paloaltonetworks:pan-os:11.0.6:-:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:o:paloaltonetworks:pan-os:11.1.5:-:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:o:paloaltonetworks:pan-os:11.2.4:-:*:*:*:*:*:*

Affected products

Product	Versions
Palo Alto Networks · Cloud NGFW	unaffected All
Palo Alto Networks · PAN-OS	affected 11.2.0 < 11.2.4-h1 ; affected 11.1.0 < 11.1.5-h1 ; affected 11.0.0 < 11.0.6-h1 ; affected 10.2.0 < 10.2.12-h2 ; affected 10.1.0 < 10.1.14-h6
Palo Alto Networks · Prisma Access	unaffected All

References

Sources

Source	Licence
CVE List (CVEProject cvelistV5)	CVE Program Terms of Use
CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities	CC0 1.0
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