🛡️ CVE-2024-0012 — pan-os

🔴 CVSS 9.8 — Critical ⚠️ Exploit Public CWE-306 NVD
9.8
CVSS Score
0 Low4 Medium7 High9 Critical10

Description

An authentication bypass in Palo Alto Networks PAN-OS software enables an unauthenticated attacker with network access to the management web interface to gain PAN-OS administrator privileges to perform administrative actions, tamper with the configuration, or exploit other authenticated privilege escalation vulnerabilities like CVE-2024-9474 https://security.paloaltonetworks.com/CVE-2024-9474 .

The risk of this issue is greatly reduced if you secure access to the management web interface by restricting access to only trusted internal IP addresses according to our recommended  best practice deployment guidelines https://live.paloaltonetworks.com/t5/community-blogs/tips-amp-tricks-how-to-secure-the-management-access-of-your-palo/ba-p/464431 .

This issue is applicable only to PAN-OS 10.2, PAN-OS 11.0, PAN-OS 11.1, and PAN-OS 11.2 software.

Cloud NGFW and Prisma Access are not impacted by this vulnerability.

How this vulnerability can be exploited

This issue can be reached over the network, attack complexity is low, an attacker needs no privileges on the target. No user interaction is required. The scope is unchanged, so the impact stays within the vulnerable component. Rated impact: confidentiality high, integrity high, availability high.

Weakness class

CVE-2024-0012 is classified as CWE-306: Missing Authentication for Critical Function. A sensitive function can be reached without authenticating at all.

Affected software

CVE-2024-0012 is recorded against 1 package.

  • pan-os

Timeline and source

Published on 18 November 2024 and last revised on 4 August 2026. A public exploit is known to exist, which raises the urgency of patching considerably. Record sourced from NVD.

References

security.paloaltonetworks.com
unit42.paloaltonetworks.com
labs.watchtowr.com
www.cisa.gov

Details

Severity CRITICAL
CVSS Score 9.8
CVSS Vector CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CWE CWE-306
Public Exploit ⚠️ Yes
Source NVD
Published 2024-11-18
Updated 2026-08-11
Modified 2026-08-04
Fix URL N/A

Affected Packages

Software From version Fixed in
pan-os — —

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