CVE-2024-9474KEVRansomware

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

Severity: High7.2CVSS 3.1, High
EPSS: 95%
Published: 18 Nov 2024
Updated: 4 Aug 2026

Description

Title, description and vendor guidance are quoted from the source records.

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.

Weakness: CWE-78

Known exploited

Added to CISA KEV on 18 Nov 2024

Federal remediation due date: 9 Dec 2024

Known use in ransomware campaigns

Required action: Apply mitigations per vendor instructions or discontinue use of the product if mitigations are unavailable. Additionally, the management interfaces for affected devices should not be exposed to untrusted networks, including the internet.

Exploit prediction

95% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days (percentile 100%).

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

What the source states, per branch

Versions matched by Patcharo

Palo Alto Networks PAN-OSSource: Palo Alto Networks (CVE record)

Branch	Affected	Fixed in
11.2	>= 11.2.0, < 11.2.4-h1	11.2.4-h1
11.1	>= 11.1.0, < 11.1.5-h1	11.1.5-h1
11.0	>= 11.0.0, < 11.0.6-h1	11.0.6-h1
10.2	>= 10.2.0, < 10.2.12-h2	10.2.12-h2
10.1	>= 10.1.0, < 10.1.14-h6	10.1.14-h6

Versions not listed are stated unaffected by the vendor.

Workaround / Vendor remediation

Workaround · PAN-OS

Recommended mitigation—The vast majority of firewalls already follow Palo Alto Networks and industry best practices. However, if you haven’t already, we strongly recommend that you secure access to your management interface according to our best practice deployment guidelines. Specifically, you should restrict access to the management interface to only trusted internal IP addresses to prevent external access from the internet. Review information about how to secure management access to your Palo Alto Networks firewalls: * Palo Alto Networks LIVEcommunity article: https://docs.paloaltonetworks.com/best-practices/10-1/administrative-access-best-practices/administrative-access-best-practices/deploy-administrative-access-best-practices

Vendor remediation · PAN-OS

This issue is fixed in PAN-OS 10.1.14-h6, PAN-OS 10.2.12-h2, PAN-OS 11.0.6-h1, PAN-OS 11.1.5-h1, PAN-OS 11.2.4-h1, and all later PAN-OS versions. In addition, in an attempt to provide the most seamless upgrade path for our customers, we are making fixes available for other TAC-preferred and commonly deployed maintenance releases. * Additional PAN-OS 11.2 fixes: * 11.2.0-h1 * 11.2.1-h1 * 11.2.2-h2 * 11.2.3-h3 * 11.2.4-h1 * Additional PAN-OS 11.1 fixes: * 11.1.0-h4 * 11.1.1-h2 * 11.1.2-h15 * 11.1.3-h11 * 11.1.4-h7 * 11.1.5-h1 * Additional PAN-OS 11.0 fixes: * 11.0.0-h4 * 11.0.1-h5 * 11.0.2-h5 * 11.0.3-h13 * 11.0.4-h6 * 11.0.5-h2 * 11.0.6-h1 * Additional PAN-OS 10.2 fixes: * 10.2.0-h4 * 10.2.1-h3 * 10.2.2-h6 * 10.2.3-h14 * 10.2.4-h32 * 10.2.5-h9 * 10.2.6-h6 * 10.2.7-h18 * 10.2.8-h15 * 10.2.9-h16 * 10.2.10-h9 * 10.2.11-h6 * 10.2.12-h2 * Additional PAN-OS 10.1 fixes: * 10.1.9-h14 * 10.1.10…

References

Provenance

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Palo Alto Networks (CVE record): Palo Alto Networks (CVE record) · 27 Sept 2026, 23:46 UTC · Parser patcharo-cve5/1.1.0
CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities: CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities · 27 Sept 2026, 23:42 UTC · Parser patcharo-kev/1.0.0
NVD: NVD · 27 Sept 2026, 23:44 UTC · Parser patcharo-nvd/1.0.0
FIRST EPSS: FIRST EPSS · 27 Sept 2026, 23:46 UTC · Parser patcharo-epss/1.0.0

Last verified: 28 Sept 2026, 02:31 UTC