How severe is CVE-2024-9474?

CVE-2024-9474 has a CVSS 4.0 base score of 6.9 (MEDIUM). EPSS estimates a 94.7% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days. It is listed in the CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog.

CVE-2024-9474: PAN-OS: Privilege Escalation (PE) Vulnerability in the

CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities

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

Added to KEV

2024-11-18

Remediation due

2024-12-09

Ransomware

Known use

Required action
Apply mitigations per vendor instructions or discontinue use of the product if mitigations are unavailable. Additionally, the management interfaces for affected devices should not be exposed to untrusted networks, including the internet.

CISA notes
https://security.paloaltonetworks.com/CVE-2024-9474 ; https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2024-9474

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.

Severity

CVSS 4.0 · CNA6.9 MEDIUM

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

CVSS 4.0 · CNA5.9 MEDIUM

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

SSVC · CISA-ADP

Exploitationactive

Automatableno

Technical impacttotal

Affected Products

Vendor	Product	Affected versions
Palo Alto Networks	Cloud NGFW	All (unaffected)
Palo Alto Networks	PAN-OS	11.2.0 to <11.2.4-h1 (fixed ≥ 11.2.4-h1) 11.1.0 to <11.1.5-h1 (fixed ≥ 11.1.5-h1) 11.0.0 to <11.0.6-h1 (fixed ≥ 11.0.6-h1) 10.2.0 to <10.2.12-h2 (fixed ≥ 10.2.12-h2) 10.1.0 to <10.1.14-h6 (fixed ≥ 10.1.14-h6)
Palo Alto Networks	Prisma Access	All (unaffected)

References

2 Links

Vendor advisories

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

Other references

https://unit42.paloaltonetworks.com/cve-2024-0012-cve-2024-9474/

Record Details

Published

2024-11-18

Last updated

2026-08-04

Assigner (CNA)

palo_alto

Credited to

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

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