CVE-2024-9463
Expedition: Unauthenticated OS Command Injection Vulnerability Leads to Firewall Credential Disclosure
- 9.9CriticalCVSS base score
- 98.5%Exploitation in 30 daysEPSS · top 0.1% of all CVEs
- YesKnown exploitedin CISA's KEV since 14 Nov 2024
- 1Public exploitsMetasploit, Nuclei and Exploit-DB
Description
An OS command injection vulnerability in Palo Alto Networks Expedition allows an unauthenticated attacker to run arbitrary OS commands as root in Expedition, resulting in disclosure of usernames, cleartext passwords, device configurations, and device API keys of PAN-OS firewalls.
Exploited in the wild
CISA lists this vulnerability in its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog as Palo Alto Networks Expedition OS Command Injection Vulnerability.
- Added
- 14 Nov 2024
- Fix due (US federal)
- 5 Dec 2024
- Used by ransomware
- Not known
Apply mitigations per vendor instructions or discontinue use of the product if mitigations are unavailable.
ENISA's EU Vulnerability Database lists it as exploited, from CISA's KEV, since 14 Nov 2024.
Public exploit
An exploit or proof of concept is public: anyone can try it against an unpatched system. The public collections list a Nuclei template for it. CISA's SSVC rates its exploitation: it is being exploited.
Show the exploits1
Nuclei templates1 template
- PaloAlto Networks Expedition - Remote Code Execution (Nuclei template) (opens in a new tab)
http/cves/2024/CVE-2024-9463.yamlSeverity critical
Modules, templates and exploits as listed by the Metasploit Framework (BSD-3-Clause), ProjectDiscovery's Nuclei templates (MIT) and the Exploit Database (GPLv2), read once a day. Where the data comes from
Timeline
ID reserved
By palo_alto
- 6 days later
· 6 days later
Published
- 36 days later
· 36 days later
Added to CISA KEV
Known exploited in the wild
- 11 months later
· 11 months later
Record updated
Changes after publication (a new score, a public exploit, EPSS crossing 1, 10 or 50 %, leaving KEV) are kept since November 2026; earlier ones are not known.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| palo_altoCNA (assigner) | 4.0 | Critical9.9 | CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:H/VI:H/VA:H/SC:H/SI:N/SA:N/AU:N/R:U/V:C/RE:H/U:Amber |
| NVDNVD · Analyzed | 4.0 | Critical9.9 | CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:H/VI:H/VA:H/SC:H/SI:N/SA:N/E:X/CR:X/IR:X/AR:X/MAV:X/MAC:X/MAT:X/MPR:X/MUI:X/MVC:X/MVI:X/MVA:X/MSC:X/MSI:X/MSA:X/S:X/AU:N/R:U/V:C/RE:H/U:Amber |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 98.5% · top 0.1% of all CVEs (11 Nov 2026)
- CISA SSVC
- Exploitation: active · Automatable: yes · Technical impact: total
The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: Critical 9.9.
Affected products
Palo Alto Networks · Expedition
- affected 1.2.0 – < 1.2.96
What to do
Solution: The fixes for all listed issues are available in Expedition 1.2.96, and all later Expedition versions. All Expedition usernames, passwords, and API keys should be rotated after upgrading to the fixed version of Expedition. All firewall usernames, passwords, and API keys processed by Expedition should be rotated after updating.
Workaround: Ensure networks access to Expedition is restricted to authorized users, hosts, or networks.
Exploitation: Palo Alto Networks is not aware of any malicious exploitation of these issues.
References
References2
Sources
The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.
- CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
- CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
- NVD (opens in a new tab)
- CISA KEV catalog (opens in a new tab)
- FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
- EUVD EUVD-2024-49955 (opens in a new tab)
- OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
- GitHub Advisories (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
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[](https://cveledger.app/cve/CVE-2024-9463)Record last updated .