How severe is CVE-2024-3400?

CVE-2024-3400 has a CVSS 3.1 base score of 10 (CRITICAL). EPSS estimates a 100.0% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days. It is listed in the CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog.

CVE-2024-3400: PAN-OS: Arbitrary File Creation Leads to OS Command

CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities

Palo Alto Networks PAN-OS Command Injection Vulnerability is confirmed as actively exploited and is listed in the CISA KEV catalog.

Added to KEV

2024-04-12

Remediation due

2024-04-19

Ransomware

Known use

Required action
Apply mitigations per vendor instructions as they become available. Otherwise, users with vulnerable versions of affected devices should enable Threat Prevention IDs available from the vendor. See the vendor bulletin for more details and a patch release schedule.

CISA notes
https://security.paloaltonetworks.com/CVE-2024-3400 ; https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2024-3400

Description

A command injection as a result of arbitrary file creation vulnerability in the GlobalProtect feature of Palo Alto Networks PAN-OS software for specific PAN-OS versions and distinct feature configurations may enable an unauthenticated attacker to execute arbitrary code with root privileges on the firewall. Cloud NGFW, Panorama appliances, and Prisma Access are not impacted by this vulnerability.

Severity

CVSS 3.1 · CNA10 CRITICAL

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

SSVC · CISA-ADP

Exploitationactive

Automatableyes

Technical impacttotal

Exploitation Context

as of October 14, 2026

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CISA added CVE-2024-3400 to the KEV catalog on the day its CVE record was published. The median for entries added in 2024 is 21.5 days.
It is one of 15 Palo Alto Networks entries in the CISA KEV catalog, and one of 7 added in 2024.
Its current EPSS score (100.0%) is higher than that of 97% of CISA KEV entries.

Affected Products

Vendor	Product	Affected versions
Palo Alto Networks	Palo Alto Networks PAN-OS	9.0.0 (unaffected) 9.1.0 (unaffected) 10.0.0 (unaffected) 10.1.0 (unaffected) 10.2.0 to <10.2.9-h1 (fixed ≥ 10.2.9-h1) 11.0.0 to <11.0.4-h1 (fixed ≥ 11.0.4-h1) 11.1.0 to <11.1.2-h3 (fixed ≥ 11.1.2-h3)
Palo Alto Networks	Palo Alto Networks Cloud NGFW	All (unaffected)
Palo Alto Networks	Palo Alto Networks Prisma Access	All (unaffected)

References

4 Links

Vendor advisories

https://security.paloaltonetworks.com/CVE-2024-3400

Technical writeups

Record Details

Published

2024-04-12

Last updated

2025-10-21

Assigner (CNA)

palo_alto

Credited to

Palo Alto Networks thanks Volexity for detecting and identifying this issue.; Capability Development Group at Bishop Fox for helping us verify the fixes and improve threat prevention signatures.

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Tool categories

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CVE-2024-3400