CVE-2024-5908
GlobalProtect App: Encrypted Credential Exposure via Log Files
- Published
- Updated
- Reserved
- Assigned by
- palo_alto
Description
A problem with the Palo Alto Networks GlobalProtect app can result in exposure of encrypted user credentials, used for connecting to GlobalProtect, in application logs. Normally, these application logs are only viewable by local users and are included when generating logs for troubleshooting purposes. This means that these encrypted credentials are exposed to recipients of the application logs.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| palo_altoCNA (assigner) | 4.0 | Medium5.5 | CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:P/PR:N/UI:A/VC:L/VI:N/VA:N/SC:H/SI:H/SA:H/AU:N/R:U/V:D/RE:M/U:Amber |
| NVDNVD · Modified | 4.0 | Medium5.5 | CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:P/PR:N/UI:A/VC:L/VI:N/VA:N/SC:H/SI:H/SA:H/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:D/RE:M/U:Amber |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 0.37% · top 69% of all CVEs (7 Nov 2026)
- CISA SSVC
- Exploitation: none · Automatable: no · Technical impact: total
The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: Medium 5.5.
Weakness
Affected products
Palo Alto Networks · GlobalProtect App
- affected 5.1.0 – < 5.1.12
- affected 6.0.0 – < 6.0.8
- affected 6.1.0 – < 6.1.3
- affected 6.2.0 – < 6.2.3
What to do
Solution: This issue is fixed in GlobalProtect app 5.1.12, GlobalProtect app 6.0.8, GlobalProtect app 6.1.3, GlobalProtect app 6.2.3, and all later GlobalProtect app versions. Customers looking to protect against the impact of this encrypted password disclosure should first delete PanGPS.log files from the GlobalProtect installation directory on all endpoints and then force a rotation of user passwords that are used to connect to GlobalProtect.
Exploitation: Palo Alto Networks is not aware of any malicious exploitation of this issue.
References (1)
- https://security.paloaltonetworks.com/CVE-2024-5908 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_transferred
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)
- FIRST EPSS (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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