CVE-2024-9471: Palo Alto Networks PAN-OS

Medium severity, CVSS 4.7. EPSS: 0.3% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

A privilege escalation (PE) vulnerability in the XML API of Palo Alto Networks PAN-OS software enables an authenticated PAN-OS administrator with restricted privileges to use a compromised XML API key to perform actions as a higher privileged PAN-OS administrator. For example, an administrator with "Virtual system administrator (read-only)" access could use an XML API key of a "Virtual system administrator" to perform write operations on the virtual system configuration even though they should be limited to read-only operations.

Affected products

• Palo Alto Networks PAN-OS: from 9.0.0, before 10.0.0 (fixed in 10.0.0); from 10.1.0, before 10.1.11 (fixed in 10.1.11); from 10.2.0, before 10.2.8 (fixed in 10.2.8); from 11.0.0, before 11.0.3 (fixed in 11.0.3)

Published 2024-10-09. Last modified 2026-06-17.