CVE-2024-9471

Severity

47%

Complexity

12%

Confidentiality

56%

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.

CVSS 3.1 Base Score 4.7. CVSS Attack Vector: network. CVSS Attack Complexity: low. CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:L).

Overview

First reported 4 months ago

2024-10-09 17:15:00

Last updated 4 months ago

2024-10-15 16:55:00

Affected Software

Palo Alto Networks PAN-OS

References

https://security.paloaltonetworks.com/CVE-2024-9471

https://security.paloaltonetworks.com/CVE-2024-9471

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