PanOS - Privilege Escalation (CVE-2024-9474)

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.

Data from the CrowdSec community indicates that exploitation of CVE-2024-9474 is highly selective and intelligence-driven. Threat actors use advanced reconnaissance and carefully choose their targets, often as part of sophisticated campaigns or advanced persistent threat operations. 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.