CVE-2024-2433: PAN-OS: Improper Privilege Management Vulnerability in Panorama Software Leads to Availability Loss

Severity: low (CVSS 2.7 v3.1)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 0.6% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2024-03-13 · updated 2026-06-17
Weakness: CWE-269

Description

An improper authorization vulnerability in Palo Alto Networks Panorama software enables an authenticated read-only administrator to upload files using the web interface and completely fill one of the disk partitions with those uploaded files, which prevents the ability to log into the web interface or to download PAN-OS, WildFire, and content images. This issue affects only the web interface of the management plane; the dataplane is unaffected.

Affected products

Palo Alto Networks PAN-OS: before 9.0.17; from 9.1.0 before 9.1.17; from 10.1.0 before 10.1.12; from 10.2.0 before 10.2.8; from 11.0.0 before 11.0.3; 9.0.17-h1 — fixed in 9.0.17, 9.1.17, 10.1.12, 10.2.8, 11.0.3
Palo Alto Networks PAN-OS: from 9.0 before 9.0.17-h4; from 9.1 before 9.1.17; from 10.1 before 10.1.12; from 10.2 before 10.2.8; from 11.0 before 11.0.3 — fixed in 9.0.17-h4, 9.1.17, 10.1.12, 10.2.8, 11.0.3

How to fix

Upgrade to a fixed version: Palo Alto Networks PAN-OS 9.0.17, 9.1.17, 10.1.12, 10.2.8; Palo Alto Networks PAN-OS 9.0.17-h4, 9.1.17, 10.1.12, 10.2.8. Check the vendor advisory for mitigations.

References

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