CVE-2024-5916
PAN-OS: Cleartext Exposure of External System Secrets
- Published
- Updated
- Reserved
- Assigned by
- palo_alto
Description
An information exposure vulnerability in Palo Alto Networks PAN-OS software enables a local system administrator to unintentionally disclose secrets, passwords, and tokens of external systems. A read-only administrator who has access to the config log, can read secrets, passwords, and tokens to external systems.
Timeline
ID reserved
By palo_alto
- 2 months later
· 2 months later
Published
- 9 months later
· 9 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 | Medium6.0 | CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:H/UI:P/VC:L/VI:N/VA:N/SC:H/SI:N/SA:N/AU:N/R:U/V:C/RE:H/U:Amber |
| NVDNVD · Analyzed | 4.0 | Medium6.0 | CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:H/UI:P/VC:L/VI:N/VA:N/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)
- 0.25% · top 84% of all CVEs (7 Nov 2026)
- CISA SSVC
- Exploitation: none · Automatable: no · Technical impact: partial
The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: Medium 6.0.
Weakness
Affected products
- unaffected 9.1
- unaffected 10.1
- affected 10.2 – < 10.2.8
- affected 11.0 – < 11.0.4
- unaffected 11.1
Palo Alto Networks · Cloud NGFW
- affected Before 8/15
- unaffected On or after 8/15
- affected Before 8/23
- unaffected On or after 8/23
Palo Alto Networks · Prisma Access
- unaffected All
What to do
Solution: This issue is fixed in PAN-OS 10.2.8, PAN-OS 11.0.4, and all later PAN-OS versions. This issue is fixed in Cloud NGFW on or after 8/15 on Azure, Cloud NGFW on or after 8/23 on AWS, and all later Cloud NGFW versions. You should also revoke the secrets, passwords, and tokens that are configured in all server profiles of affected PAN-OS firewalls (Device > Server Profiles) after upgrading PAN-OS.
Exploitation: Palo Alto Networks is not aware of any malicious exploitation of this issue.
References (1)
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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