CVE-2024-5916 - CVE House
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Status published Medium CVE-2024-5916

PAN-OS: Cleartext Exposure of External System Secrets

Vulnerability Description

An information exposure vulnerability in Palo Alto Networks PAN-OS software enables a local system administrator to unintentionally disclose secrets, passwords, and tokens of external systems. A read-only administrator who has access to the config log, can read secrets, passwords, and tokens to external systems.

Impact Analysis

Refer to official advisory for detailed impact metrics.

Remediation

Ensure systems are updated to the latest vendor-supplied patch levels.

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Credits & Attribution

The following person or organization is credited with identifying this vulnerability, as recorded in the NVD database:

  • Hari Yadavalli of Palo Alto Networks

References

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Affected Vendor

Palo Alto Networks

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Affected Software

PAN-OS, Cloud NGFW, Prisma Access
Vulnerable Versions:
9.1, 10.1, 10.2, 11.0, 11.1, Before 8/15, On or after 8/15, Before 8/23, On or after 8/23, All

Timeline

Official Publish: August 14th, 2024
Last Modified: April 30th, 2025
Added to House: July 22nd, 2026

CVSS Vectors

Weaknesses (CWE)

CWE-313

MITRE ATT&CK TTPs

No associated TTPs found for this vulnerability.