CVE-2024-9472 PAN-OS: Firewall Denial of Service (DoS) Using Specially Crafted Traffic
An unauthenticated attacker can cause a denial of service on Palo Alto firewalls by sending crafted traffic when decryption is enabled.
- Exploited in the wild
- Not known
- Login needed
- Not needed
- Attackable
- Over the internet
- Victim action needed
- Not needed
- Fix
- None listed
What is CVE-2024-9472?
CVE-2024-9472 is a high-severity vulnerability in Palo Alto Networks Cloud NGFW, published on 14 Nov 2024. An attacker can exploit it over the internet without logging in, with no action from the victim.
Official 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
Weakness: CWE-476
Which versions are affected by CVE-2024-9472?
How do I fix CVE-2024-9472?
No fix has been published for CVE-2024-9472 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.
Is CVE-2024-9472 being exploited?
There is no known exploitation of CVE-2024-9472 in the wild and no public exploit code.
Sources
Also known as GHSA-4jjw-9p2j-2v46.