CVE-2024-9464 — Expedition: Authenticated OS Command Injection Vulnerability Leads to Firewall Admin Credential Disclosure

An OS command injection vulnerability in Palo Alto Networks Expedition allows an authenticated attacker to run arbitrary OS commands as root in Expedition, resulting in disclosure of usernames, cleartext passwords, device configurations, and device API keys of PAN-OS firewalls.

Published Oct 9, 2024Updated Oct 18, 2024Sources: cvelistV5, palo_alto

Triage

Is it exploited, how likely is exploitation, what does it touch, and how severe do the scoring sources call it.

Exploitation

Exploit code

public exploit, none observed

EPSS

83%

chance of exploitation in 30 days

Affects

Palo Alto

expedition

CVSS base

9.3

CRITICAL

CISA SSVC assessment

Three decision points CISA publishes for the CVEs it assesses · SSVC 2.0.3. A stakeholder decision, not a severity score.

CISA

Exploitation

PoC

none · proof-of-concept · active

Automatable

can an attacker script all four kill-chain steps

Technical impact

Total

partial · total control of the vulnerable component

Affected scope

The catalog records vendors and products as separate lists, not pairs, so which product belongs to which vendor is not something this page can say.

Vendors (2)

Palo Alto paloaltonetworks

Products (1)

expedition

Every base score collected

Sources score independently and disagree; each row says who scored it and under which version.

Score	Version	Severity	Expl.	Impact	Source
9.3	CVSS 4.0	CRITICAL	—	—	cvelistV5

Weakness & attack patterns

CWE-78

Public exploit

Capability, not use: code existing is a different claim from anyone running it.

Indexed by

poc in github

References

2 on the record

security.paloaltonetworks.com/PAN-SA-2024-0010
vendor-advisory
www.horizon3.ai/attack-research/palo-alto-expedition-from-n-day-to-full-compromise/
exploit

Elsewhere on this site

Palo Altoevery CVE for this vendor
paloaltonetworksevery CVE for this vendor
CWE-78other pages naming this weakness

Not in any source we poll

Listed rather than left blank: an empty field and an unmeasured one look identical on screen, and only one is a reason to look elsewhere.

No confirmed IOCs, IP addresses, domains, file hashes, or malware artifacts supplied.
No organization-specific asset inventory, compensating-control status, or patch deployment evidence supplied.
No exploit packet captures, log samples, or incident case IDs supplied.