# CVE-2024-9474: PanOS - Privilege Escalation

> Live exploitation tracking for CVE-2024-9474 by the CrowdSec Live Exploit Tracker, built from real-world attack data crowdsourced from CrowdSec's global network.

Page: https://tracker.crowdsec.net/cves/CVE-2024-9474

## Key facts

- **Exploitation phase:** Limited Exploitation. The vulnerability is known but shows very limited attacker interest or exploitation activity.
- **CVSS score:** 6.9
- **Public exploit available:** Yes
- **Affected products:** Palo Alto Networks Prisma Access
- **Weaknesses:** CWE-78 (Improper Neutralization of Special Elements used in an OS Command ('OS Command Injection'))
- **Tags:** enterprise_software, firewall, web_application

## Description

A privilege escalation vulnerability in Palo Alto Networks PAN-OS software allows a PAN-OS administrator with access to the management web interface to perform actions on the firewall with root privileges.

Cloud NGFW and Prisma Access are not impacted by this vulnerability.

## CrowdSec analysis

[CVE-2024-9474](https://euvd.enisa.europa.eu/vulnerability/CVE-2024-9474) is a vulnerability in Palo Alto Networks PAN-OS software that may enable privilege escalation, allowing authenticated administrators to perform actions with root privileges through the management web interface.

CrowdSec has been tracking this vulnerability and its exploits since 20th of November 2024.

CrowdSec has not observed any significant exploitation activity targeting CVE-2024-9474 across its network. As a result, no community-driven trend analysis is available for this vulnerability at this time.

Observed exploitation attempts are associated with requests targeting URLs matching `/php/utils/createremoteappwebsession.php/` followed by a `.js.map` file.

## Timeline

- 2024-11-18: CVE Published. CVE-2024-9474 is published to NVD.
- 2024-11-18: CISA KEV. CVE-2024-9474 is added to the Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog by CISA.
- 2024-11-20: Rule Released. CrowdSec releases a rule to detect CVE-2024-9474 exploitation attempts against the CrowdSec Network.
- 2024-11-23: CrowdSec First Seen. CrowdSec observes in-the-wild exploitation of CVE-2024-9474 for the first time.
- 2024-12-09: CISA Remediation Deadline. Expiration of the CISA remediation deadline as described in [BOD 22-01](https://www.cisa.gov/news-events/directives/bod-22-01-reducing-significant-risk-known-exploited-vulnerabilities).

## References

- https://security.paloaltonetworks.com/CVE-2024-9474
- https://github.com/projectdiscovery/nuclei-templates/blob/main/http/cves/2024/CVE-2024-9474.yaml
- https://github.com/k4nfr3/CVE-2024-9474
- https://labs.watchtowr.com/pots-and-pans-aka-an-sslvpn-palo-alto-pan-os-cve-2024-0012-and-cve-2024-9474/
- https://unit42.paloaltonetworks.com/cve-2024-0012-cve-2024-9474/

## Live exploitation data

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