Palo Alto PAN-OS/Cloud NGFW/Prisma Access privileges management

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A vulnerability was found in Palo Alto PAN-OS, Cloud NGFW and Prisma Access and classified as critical. This affects an unknown function. Executing a manipulation can lead to privileges management. This vulnerability is tracked as CVE-2024-9471. The attack can be launched remotely. No exploit exists. It is suggested to upgrade the affected component.

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A vulnerability classified as critical was found in Palo Alto PAN-OS, Cloud NGFW and Prisma Access (the affected version is unknown). This vulnerability affects an unknown code. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a privileges management vulnerability. The CWE definition for the vulnerability is CWE-269. The product does not properly assign, modify, track, or check privileges for an actor, creating an unintended sphere of control for that actor. As an impact it is known to affect confidentiality, integrity, and availability. CVE summarizes:

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.

The advisory is shared for download at security.paloaltonetworks.com. This vulnerability was named CVE-2024-9471 since 10/03/2024. The exploitation appears to be easy. The attack can be initiated remotely. Additional levels of successful authentication are required for exploitation. There are neither technical details nor an exploit publicly available. The MITRE ATT&CK project declares the attack technique as T1068.

Upgrading eliminates this vulnerability.

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• Firewall Software

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• Palo Alto

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• Cloud NGFW
• PAN-OS
• Prisma Access

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• commercial

Website

• Vendor: https://www.paloaltonetworks.com/

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