High severity · published Nov 14, 2024
CVE-2024-9472
PAN-OS: Firewall Denial of Service (DoS) Using Specially Crafted Traffic
8.7
CVSS
0.4%
EPSS
No
On KEV
Description
A null pointer dereference in Palo Alto Networks PAN-OS software on PA-800 Series, PA-3200 Series, PA-5200 Series, and PA-7000 Series hardware platforms when Decryption policy is enabled allows an unauthenticated attacker to crash PAN-OS by sending specific traffic through the data plane, resulting in a denial of service (DoS) condition. Repeated attempts to trigger this condition will result in PAN-OS entering maintenance mode.
Palo Alto Networks VM-Series, Cloud NGFW, and Prisma Access are not affected.
This issue only affects PA-800 Series, PA-3200 Series, PA-5200 Series, and PA-7000 Series running these specific versions of PAN-OS:
* 10.2.7-h12
* 10.2.8-h10
* 10.2.9-h9
* 10.2.9-h11
* 10.2.10-h2
* 10.2.10-h3
* 10.2.11
* 10.2.11-h1
* 10.2.11-h2
* 10.2.11-h3
* 11.1.2-h9
* 11.1.2-h12
* 11.1.3-h2
* 11.1.3-h4
* 11.1.3-h6
* 11.2.2
* 11.2.2-h1
Exploitation
Is it being used?
Exploit prediction (EPSS)0.4% · higher than 37% of CVEs
Exploited in the wildNo evidence yet
CISA KEVNot listed
Ransomware campaign useNot known
Affected products
Which versions
PA
PAN-OS · Palo Alto Networks
11.2.2 before 11.2.2-h3; 11.1.2-h9 before 11.1.2-h14; 10.2.7-h12 before 10.2.7-h16 · source: vendor
References
NVD
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2024-9472
CVE.org
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2024-9472
security.paloaltonetworks.com
https://security.paloaltonetworks.com/CVE-2024-9472
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