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CVE-2024-9463 — Expedition: Unauthenticated OS Command Injection Vulnerability Leads to Firewall Credential Disclosure

CVE-2024-9463 · Palo Alto Networks Expedition · CVSS 7.5 · KEV

In brief

Severity · CVSS
High7.5CVSS 3.1, High
EPSS
99%
CISA KEV
Known exploited, listed since 14 Nov 2024
Published · Modified
·
Last verified

Summary

An OS command injection vulnerability in Palo Alto Networks Expedition allows an unauthenticated 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.

Weakness: CWE-78

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-2024-9463

  1. 1.2
    Affected versions>= 1.2.0, < 1.2.96
    First fixed release1.2.96

Releases the vendor does not list are not affected.

Remediation

Fix available

Vendor fix

  • Expedition 1.21.2.96

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

The fixes for all listed issues are available in Expedition 1.2.96, and all later Expedition versions. All Expedition usernames, passwords, and API keys should be rotated after upgrading to the fixed version of Expedition. All firewall usernames, passwords, and API keys processed by Expedition should be rotated after updating.

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

CERT-FR recommendation

Refer to the vendor's security bulletin to obtain patches (see Documentation section).

SourceCERTFR-2024-AVI-0859

Last verified 1 Oct 2026 at 13:37 UTC

Known exploitation

Added to CISA KEV on 14 Nov 2024

Federal remediation due date: 5 Dec 2024

The CISA required action is shown under Remediation.

99% 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:N/A:N

CERT-FR

1 document of the French national CERT (ANSSI) references this CVE.

Advisory (AVI)CERTFR-2024-AVI-0859Published 10 Oct 2024

Multiple vulnerabilities in Palo Alto Networks products

Remote denial of serviceNot specified by the vendorData confidentiality breachPrivilege escalation

Summary

Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in Palo Alto Networks products. Some of them allow an attacker to cause privilege escalation, remote denial of service, and a data confidentiality breach.

Recommendation

Refer to the vendor's security bulletin to obtain patches (see Documentation section).

Official document on cert.ssi.gouv.frread by Patcharo 28 Sept 2026 at 20:04 UTCMachine translation of the French text published by CERT-FR; a text whose translation did not pass Patcharo's checks stays in French. Identifiers, versions and links are copied unchanged.

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

Vendor advisory

References

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