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CVE-2024-5910 — Expedition: Missing Authentication Leads to Admin Account Takeover

CVE-2024-5910 · Palo Alto Networks Expedition · CVSS 9.8 · KEV

In brief

Severity · CVSS
Critical9.8CVSS 3.1, Critical
EPSS
92%
CISA KEV
Known exploited, listed since 7 Nov 2024
CERT-FR
No advisory or alert referenced in the catalog
Published · Modified
·
Last verified

Summary

Missing authentication for a critical function in Palo Alto Networks Expedition can lead to an Expedition admin account takeover for attackers with network access to Expedition. Note: Expedition is a tool aiding in configuration migration, tuning, and enrichment. Configuration secrets, credentials, and other data imported into Expedition is at risk due to this issue.

Weakness: CWE-306

Title, description and the vendor's statements are quoted from the CVE record; a vendor's advisory is summarised in Patcharo's words, with a link.

Affected and fixed versions

Per product and release branch, as the vendor's CVE record and official advisory state them. A fixed release is shown only when a document names it: the vendor's, or CERT-FR's for Check Point, with its source.

1 branch with a published fixed release

Palo Alto Networks Expedition

Source: CVE-2024-5910

  1. 1.2
    Affected versions>= 1.2.0, < 1.2.92
    First fixed release1.2.92

Releases the vendor does not list are not affected.

Remediation

Fix available

Vendor fix

  • Expedition 1.21.2.92

Upgrade to a fixed release listed above for your branch, or to a later fixed release the vendor explicitly supports.

This issue is fixed in Expedition 1.2.92 and all later versions.

SourcePalo Alto Networks (CVE record)

Mitigation (vendor)

Ensure networks access to Expedition is restricted to authorized users, hosts, or networks.

SourcePalo Alto Networks (CVE record)

CISA KEV required action

Apply mitigations per vendor instructions or discontinue use of the product if mitigations are unavailable.

CISA due date:

SourceCISA KEV

Last verified 1 Oct 2026 at 13:37 UTC

Known exploitation

Added to CISA KEV on 7 Nov 2024

Federal remediation due date: 28 Nov 2024

The CISA required action is shown under Remediation.

92% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days (percentile 100%).

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

CERT-FR

No CERT-FR advisory or alert of the last two years references this CVE, for the vendors Patcharo covers.

Timeline

  1. Published by the source
  2. Added to CISA KEV
  3. CISA remediation due date
  4. Source record last modified
  5. EPSS score computed
  6. Last verified by Patcharo

Official sources

Palo Alto Networks · CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities · NVD · FIRST EPSS

How Patcharo reads this

Affected and fixed releases come from the vendor's structured statements and are matched against exact versions; CVSS from NVD, exploitation from CISA KEV and the vendor's own advisory, probability from FIRST EPSS. Missing data stays Unknown and never becomes Not affected.

Read the methodologyRead the guide: PAN-OS versions explained: release lines, maintenance releases and the -h1, -h2, -h3 suffixes