How severe is CVE-2024-9465?

CVE-2024-9465 has a CVSS 4.0 base score of 9.2 (CRITICAL). EPSS estimates a 99.6% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days. It is listed in the CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog.

CVE-2024-9465: Expedition: SQL Injection Leads to Firewall Admin

CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities

Palo Alto Networks Expedition SQL Injection Vulnerability is confirmed as actively exploited and is listed in the CISA KEV catalog.

Added to KEV

2024-11-14

Remediation due

2024-12-05

Required action
Apply mitigations per vendor instructions or discontinue use of the product if mitigations are unavailable.

CISA notes
https://security.paloaltonetworks.com/PAN-SA-2024-0010 ; https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2024-9465

Description

An SQL injection vulnerability in Palo Alto Networks Expedition allows an unauthenticated attacker to reveal Expedition database contents, such as password hashes, usernames, device configurations, and device API keys. With this, attackers can also create and read arbitrary files on the Expedition system.

Severity

CVSS 4.0 · CNA9.2 CRITICAL

CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:H/VI:L/VA:N/SC:H/SI:N/SA:N/AU:N/R:U/V:C/RE:H/U:Amber

SSVC · CISA-ADP

Exploitationactive

Automatableyes

Technical impacttotal

Affected Products

Vendor	Product	Affected versions
Palo Alto Networks	Expedition	1.2.0 to <1.2.96 (fixed ≥ 1.2.96)

References

2 Links

Vendor advisories

https://security.paloaltonetworks.com/PAN-SA-2024-0010

Exploits & PoCs

https://www.horizon3.ai/attack-research/palo-alto-expedition-from-n-day-to-full-compromise/

Record Details

Published

2024-10-09

Last updated

2025-10-21

Assigner (CNA)

palo_alto

Credited to

Zach Hanley (@hacks_zach) of Horizon3.ai; Enrique Castillo of Palo Alto Networks

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