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GHSA-CVJP-23HX-635R

Vulnerability from github – Published: 2024-08-14 18:32 – Updated: 2024-08-20 21:30

Details

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.

Severity

4.4 (Medium)


                  
                    CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N

6.0 (Medium)


                  
                    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

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CVE-2024-5916 (GCVE-0-2024-5916)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2024-08-14 16:41 – Updated: 2025-04-30 18:33

Title

PAN-OS: Cleartext Exposure of External System Secrets

Summary

Severity

6 (Medium)


                        
                          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

SSVC

Exploitation: none Automatable: no Technical Impact: partial

CISA Coordinator · CISA-ADP (v2.0.3)

Decision recorded 2024-08-14 18:17 UTC

CWE

CWE-313 - Cleartext Storage in a File or on Disk

Assigner

palo_alto mitre root

References

1 reference

URL	Tags
https://security.paloaltonetworks.com/CVE-2024-5916

Impacted products

3 products

Vendor	Product	Version
Palo Alto Networks	PAN-OS	Unaffected: 9.1 Unaffected: 10.1 Affected: 10.2 , < 10.2.8 (custom) Affected: 11.0 , < 11.0.4 (custom) Unaffected: 11.1 (custom)
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

Date Public

2024-08-14 16:00

Credits

Hari Yadavalli of Palo Alto Networks

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