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Palo Alto Networks PAN-OS 9.1.x < 9.1.15 / 10.0.x < 10.0.10 / 10.1.x < 10.1.1 Vulnerability

medium Nessus Plugin ID 206984

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Synopsis

The remote PAN-OS host is affected by a vulnerability

Description

The version of Palo Alto Networks PAN-OS running on the remote host is 9.1.x prior to 9.1.15 or 10.0.x prior to 10.0.10 or 10.1.x prior to 10.1.1. It is, therefore, affected by a vulnerability.

 An improper neutralization of matching symbols vulnerability in the Palo Alto Networks PAN-OS command line interface (CLI) enables authenticated administrators (including read-only administrators) with access to the CLI to to read arbitrary files on the firewall.

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the PAN-OS security advisory.

Note that Nessus has not tested for this issue but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

Solution

Upgrade to PAN-OS 9.1.15 / 10.0.10 / 10.1.1 or later

See Also

https://security.paloaltonetworks.com/CVE-2024-8688

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 206984

File Name: palo_alto_CVE-2024-8688.nasl

Version: 1.1

Type: combined

Published: 9/11/2024

Updated: 9/11/2024

Supported Sensors: Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 5.1

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 4

Temporal Score: 3

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:P/I:N/A:N

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2024-8688

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 4.9

Temporal Score: 4.3

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N

Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/E:U/RL:O/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/o:paloaltonetworks:pan-os

Required KB Items: Host/Palo_Alto/Firewall/Version, Host/Palo_Alto/Firewall/Full_Version, Host/Palo_Alto/Firewall/Source

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 9/11/2024

Vulnerability Publication Date: 9/11/2024

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2024-8688

CWE: 155