Palo Alto Networks Security Advisories /CVE-2024-2433CVE-2024-2433 PAN-OS: Improper Privilege Management Vulnerability in Panorama Software Leads to Availability LossUrgencyMODERATEResponse EffortLOWRecoveryUSERValue DensityDIFFUSEAttack VectorNETWORKAttack ComplexityLOWAttack RequirementsNONEAutomatableYESUser InteractionNONEProduct ConfidentialityNONEProduct IntegrityNONEProduct AvailabilityLOWPrivileges RequiredHIGHSubsequent ConfidentialityNONESubsequent IntegrityNONESubsequent AvailabilityNONENVDJSON Published2024-03-13 Updated2024-03-13ReferencePAN-181876 andPAN-218663DiscoveredexternallyDescriptionAn 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.Product StatusVersionsAffectedUnaffectedCloud NGFW NoneAllPAN-OS 11.1NoneAllPAN-OS 11.0< 11.0.3 on Panorama>= 11.0.3 on PanoramaPAN-OS 10.2< 10.2.8 on Panorama>= 10.2.8 on PanoramaPAN-OS 10.1< 10.1.12 on Panorama>= 10.1.12 on PanoramaPAN-OS 9.1< 9.1.17 on Panorama>= 9.1.17 on PanoramaPAN-OS 9.0< 9.0.17-h4 on Panorama>= 9.0.17-h4 on PanoramaPrisma Access NoneAllSeverity:MEDIUMCVSSv4.0Base Score:5.1 (CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:H/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:L/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/AU:Y/R:U/V:D/RE:L/U:Amber)Exploitation StatusPalo Alto Networks is not aware of any malicious exploitation of this issue.Weakness TypeCWE-269 Improper Privilege ManagementSolutionThis issue is fixed in Panorama on PAN-OS 9.0.17-h4, PAN-OS 9.1.17, PAN-OS 10.1.12, PAN-OS 10.2.8, PAN-OS 11.0.3, and all later PAN-OS versions.Workarounds and MitigationsThis issue requires the attacker to have authenticated access to the PAN-OS web interface. You can mitigate the effect of this issue by following the Best Practices for Securing Administrative Access in the PAN-OS technical documentation at https://docs.paloaltonetworks.com/best-practices.Please see https://knowledgebase.paloaltonetworks.com/KCSArticleDetail?id=kA10g000000PLSJCA4 for information about how to clear the affected disk partition from the CLI.AcknowledgmentsPalo Alto Networks thanks Omar Eissa (https://de.linkedin.com/in/oeissa) for discovering and reporting this issue.Timeline2024-03-13Initial publication
