PanOS - Privilege Escalation (CVE-2024-9474)
11Exploiting IPs reported
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.
CrowdSec analysis
CVE-2024-9474 is a vulnerability in Palo Alto Networks PAN-OS software that may enable privilege escalation, allowing authenticated administrators to perform actions with root privileges through the management web interface.
CrowdSec has been tracking this vulnerability and its exploits since 15th of December 2023.
Based on data from the CrowdSec network, nearly all observed exploitation of CVE-2024-9474 is fully opportunistic, with attackers indiscriminately scanning the entire internet. These attacks are automated and lack any form of target selection or reconnaissance. Data from the CrowdSec community also indicates a gradual decrease in attacks targeting CVE-2024-9474. While still present in the wild, exploitation levels have dropped noticeably week-over-week. This may signal that the vulnerability is becoming less relevant or that defenses are improving fast enough for attackers to lose interest.
Observed exploitation attempts are associated with requests targeting URLs matching /php/utils/createremoteappwebsession.php/ followed by a .js.map file.
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