CVE-2024-9468 - CVE House
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Status published High CVE-2024-9468

PAN-OS: Firewall Denial of Service (DoS) via a Maliciously Crafted Packet

Vulnerability Description

A memory corruption vulnerability in Palo Alto Networks PAN-OS software allows an unauthenticated attacker to crash PAN-OS due to a crafted packet through the data plane, resulting in a denial of service (DoS) condition. Repeated attempts to trigger this condition will result in PAN-OS entering maintenance mode.

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:

  • Jeff Luo of Palo Alto Networks

References

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Affected Vendor

Palo Alto Networks

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Affected Software

Cloud NGFW, PAN-OS, Prisma Access
Vulnerable Versions:
All, 11.2.0, 11.1.0, 11.0.0, 10.2.0, 10.1.0

Timeline

Official Publish: October 9th, 2024
Last Modified: April 30th, 2025
Added to House: July 22nd, 2026

CVSS Vectors

Weaknesses (CWE)

CWE-787

MITRE ATT&CK TTPs

T1190 Exploit Public-Facing Application
Initial Access
T1068 Exploitation for Privilege Escalation
Privilege Escalation
T1055 Process Injection
Defense Evasion
T1105 Ingress Tool Transfer
Command and Control
T1485 Data Destruction
Impact