8.2
CWE
787
EPSS
0.043%
Advisory Published
CVE Published
Advisory Published
Updated

CVE-2024-9468: PAN-OS: Firewall Denial of Service (DoS) via a Maliciously Crafted Packet (Severity: HIGH)

First published: Wed Oct 09 2024(Updated: )

A memory corruption vulnerability in Palo Alto Networks PAN-OS software allows an unauthenticated attacker to crash PAN-OS due to a crafted packet through the data plane, resulting in a denial of service (DoS) condition. Repeated attempts to trigger this condition will result in PAN-OS entering maintenance mode.

Credit: psirt@paloaltonetworks.com

Affected SoftwareAffected VersionHow to fix
Palo Alto Networks PAN-OS<10.2.9-h11=10.2<11.0.4-h5=11.0<11.1.3=11.1
10.2.9-h11
10.2.10-h4
10.2.11
11.0.4-h5
11.0.6
11.1.3
Palo Alto Networks Cloud NGFW
Palo Alto Networks Prisma Access

Remedy

This issue is fixed in 10.2.9-h11, 10.2.10-h4, PAN-OS 10.2.11, PAN-OS 11.0.4-h5, PAN-OS 11.0.6, PAN-OS 11.1.3, and all later PAN-OS versions.

Remedy

Customers can block attacks for this vulnerability by disabling this setting: Device > Setup Session > Decryption Settings > SSL Decryption Settings > Send handshake messages to CTD for inspection. Customers with a Threat Prevention subscription, who want to keep domain fronting detection enabled, can block attacks for this vulnerability by enabling Threat ID 94971 (introduced in Applications and Threats content version 8854).

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