CVE-2024-9474 - CVE House

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Status published Medium CVE-2024-9474

PAN-OS: Privilege Escalation (PE) Vulnerability in the Web Management Interface

5.9 CVSS

Vulnerability Description

A privilege escalation vulnerability in Palo Alto Networks PAN-OS software allows a PAN-OS administrator with access to the management web interface to perform actions on the firewall with root privileges. Cloud NGFW and Prisma Access are not impacted by this vulnerability.

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:

Palo Alto Networks thanks our Deep Product Security Research Team for discovering this issue internally from threat activity.

References

https://security.paloaltonetworks.com/CVE-2024-9474

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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: November 18th, 2024

Last Modified: October 21st, 2025

Added to House: July 22nd, 2026

CVSS Vectors

Weaknesses (CWE)

MITRE ATT&CK TTPs

T1190 Exploit Public-Facing Application

T1059 Command and Scripting Interpreter

T1068 Exploitation for Privilege Escalation

Privilege Escalation

T1005 Data from Local System

T1041 Exfiltration Over C2 Channel