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CVE-2024-5916: PAN-OS: Cleartext Exposure of External System Secrets

• Severity: medium (CVSS 4.4 v3.1)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 0.2% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2024-08-14 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-313

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.

Affected products

• Palo Alto Networks PAN-OS: from 10.2.0 before 10.2.8; from 11.0.0 before 11.0.4 — fixed in 10.2.8, 11.0.4
• Palo Alto Networks Cloud NGFW: before 8/15; before 8/23
• Palo Alto Networks PAN-OS: from 10.2 before 10.2.8; from 11.0 before 11.0.4 — fixed in 10.2.8, 10.2.7-h13, 11.0.4

How to fix

Upgrade to a fixed version: Palo Alto Networks PAN-OS 10.2.8, 11.0.4; Palo Alto Networks PAN-OS 10.2.8, 10.2.7-h13, 11.0.4. Check the vendor advisory for mitigations.

References

• https://security.paloaltonetworks.com/CVE-2024-5916

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