CVE-2024-2550

PAN-OS: Firewall Denial of Service (DoS) in GlobalProtect Gateway Using a Specially Crafted Packet

State: Published
Severity: 8.7 High
Published: Nov 14, 2024
Updated: Nov 14, 2024
Reserved: Mar 15, 2024

Description

A null pointer dereference vulnerability in the GlobalProtect gateway in Palo Alto Networks PAN-OS software enables an unauthenticated attacker to stop the GlobalProtect service on the firewall by sending a specially crafted packet that causes a denial of service (DoS) condition. Repeated attempts to trigger this condition result in the firewall entering maintenance mode.

Scores

CVSS	Score	Vector	Source
4.0	8.7 High	CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/AU:N/R:U/V:C/RE:M/U:Amber	palo_alto

Weaknesses

CWE-476 NULL Pointer Dereference

Affected Products

Product	Versions
Cloud NGFWPalo Alto Networks	AllNot affected
PAN-OSPalo Alto Networks	11.2.0Not affected 11.1.0 to before 11.1.5Affectedfrom 11.1.5Not affected 11.0.0 to before 11.0.6Affectedfrom 11.0.6Not affected 10.2.0 to before 10.2.11Affectedfrom 10.2.11Not affected 10.1.0Not affected
Prisma AccessPalo Alto Networks	AllNot affected

References

https://security.paloaltonetworks.com/CVE-2024-2550vendor-advisory

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